Re: c++ vs ada results

[jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)]

>]   What Ada gives me is the means to provide reasonable, enforceable,
>]meaningful, interfaces.  That's not available in any other widely
>]distributed and available-for-software-engineering of real-problems.

>What about Eiffel?

I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude toward Eiffel, because, while it
is a swell language definition, it also is still suffering from
definitional volatility and from compiler immaturity. IS it widely
distributed? I've heard otherwise. Do such tools as are available
for it scale to real problems? I've heard otherwise (you might ask
the folks at Cognos about that one!). Do I hope it succeeds? You
bet!--it's a great design.

I'm quite interested in any success stories you DO have for Eiffel,
as well as information about availability, tool maturity, etc. I'm
in the process of adding Modula-3 to my bag of tricks, and I should
probably add Eiffel to round things out.
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