From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,1a6ba5211db88937 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:17:30 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <7bd1fd9d-6040-4f20-8e06-7ba41ca64db8@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4A27FED7.1070404@obry.net> <4A2806A9.3050600@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1244200761 16195 195.25.228.57 (5 Jun 2009 11:19:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:19:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <4A2806A9.3050600@obry.net> Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6306 Date: 2009-06-05T15:17:30+02:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry a �crit : >> How could he be inspired from a language he hated ? > > Not sure he has said that Eiffel was inspired from Ada, maybe on the > early days... IIRC, in his book Object-Oriented Software Construction > there is very few (if any) references to Ada. > For the record, B. Meyer was the founder of the Ada group of AFCET, which later became Ada-France. There is no doubt that Eiffel was inspired by Ada. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr