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From: brian_kimball@spam.sucks.hmc.edu (Brian Kimball)
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/07/30
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What IDE or compiler did you use?  When?

In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970730134300.20664A-100000@charlie>, Glenn 
Williamson <gdwillia@socs.uts.EDU.AU> wrote:
>Yeah, Eiffel may not be one of the most efficient or popular languages
>in the world ... far from it ... and for the most part, I dreaded
>learning it at University. I found it slow, unwieldy and close to useless.
>
>However, In my opinion, it is the perfect language to teach the 
>principles of Object-Oriented Programming. While C and C++ may dominate
>in the workplace, we all had to start somewhere, and I think Eiffel 
>would have been the ideal choice for me ... and for anyone deciding to 
>take up OOP ;)
>
>            m00,
>                Glenn
>
>Glenn Williamson
>Computer Science Cadet ( TAB of NSW )
>University of Technology, Sydney
>
>