Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

<<I stand by my statement, however, in that it was *a lot* easier to get a
job with C or ADA than with Pascal. It is now easier to get a job with
VB or Java than with Eiffel. But of course many people are doing serious
development in Eiffel.
>>


Well the difficulty of getting a job is of course related to the balance
of supply and demand, not to total volume (if you don't believe that, try
to get a job as a professor of History).

It maybe the case that Pascal programmers have been in oversupply, I would
not know, and it maybe that Ada programmers (who no doubt will have an easier
time if they at least know how to spell the name of the language) have been
in relative undersupply. 

Certainly the total volume of code written in Pascal greatly exceeds (both
then and now) the total volume of code written in Ada.

The number of poeple doing serious development in Eiffel is very small, 
probably two orders of magnitude less than those doing work in Pascal.
As far as I can tell, Eiffel has no perceptible share of the PC development
market (neither does Ada), but Pascal (i.e. Delphi) has something like a
5% share. Sure that is one tenth of visual basic, but it is 5% of a HUGE
market.

The share was considerably higher at the time you proclaimed that "nobody"
was using Pascal, so you have a very different meaning to this word than I :-)

RObert.