In article <D7yE5E.9LJ@ritz.mordor.com>, richieb@ritz.mordor.com says...
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>In the June issue of "Software Development" magazine Larry
>Constantine said these nice things about Eiffel:
>
>  "If you are a programmer at heart, you will want, as is your bent, to
>cut some code. In the right language, this can be very instructive.
>The right language could be almost anything, but it's probably Eiffel,
>a language that deserves to be more widely known and more commercially
>successful than it is. Arguably one of the best-designed languages ever
>developed for engineering software, Eiffel is the virtual antithesis of
>the far more popular C++. Eiffel makes it easy to learn think and build
>with objects while C++ makes it easy to fool yourself into thinking
>you've changed while your are serving up the same old shinola."
>
>
>All typos are mine...
>
>...richie
>
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Maybe *all* of the experts are not on the ISO/ANSI C++ committee helping
to debug the standard, the language, and the compiler(s) as well as
painting Tom Sawyer's fence....:)

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