Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?

[tomchen@aloha.com (Tom M. Chen)]

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:13:09 -0400, "ivory@tower.com" <ivory@tower.com> wrote:

:My friend's son is looking at colleges, and was startled to see
:that RIT appears to have a heavy focus on the language Eiffel for
:the first 2-3 years.  He's using this as a black mark against the
:school.  The thinking is that he'd rather be learning a 'real'
:language that has real-life value on the job market.
:
:He's asked me for my opinion, and I'd have to say that I somewhat
:agree.  I've never met an Eiffel programer, and don't see a lot of
:ads for them in the classifieds.  Note: I'm not debating whether or
:not Eiffel is a good language; that's not the concern.  The concern
:is whether or not the job market will see this as having been time
:well spent.
:
:So, what's the (reality based) counter argument?
:
:
:[obviously, I seldom (ever) read each of the newsgroups I posted this
:to, so please e-mail responses as well as re-post.  thanks]

Hey, M.I.T. uses Eiffel as their learning language, too.  I don't see any
disadvantages in it though.  Maybe Eiffel is a better language than C++ in that
it helps you learn better programming concepts, so you might end up becoming a
better C++ or Java programmer compared to those who learned C++ in college.  As
long as the language is object oriented, I don't see any problems because once
you learned the concepts, you can learn other languages quickly.

Tom