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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:46:40 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2004-04-30, Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> In comp.lang.ada Brian_Heilig <heilig@iname.com> wrote:
>> Right, but I believe Eiffel is the best choice except for the
>
> a proprietary language can never be a "best choice", IMHO.
>

Is Eiffel proprietary ?

See second paragraph:

   http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/eiffel.html

3rd table:

   http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/oo_comparison/page.html

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