Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer

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From: Bradley K. Sherman
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:33

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Joachim Durchholz <jhd@herold.franken.de> wrote:
>bks@netcom.com wrote:
>> Would someone be kind enough to remind me of one single
>> important contribution to the Web or the Internet that
>> is written in eiffel?

>Oh no... with that argument, you can easily dismiss *any* new language.

Typical OO enthusiast.  After 10 years Eiffel is still *new*.
Send me an interrupt when you're ready to execute, okay?

At least the structured programming aficionados had the NY Times
database to point to, even if it was sui generis.

    --bks

p.s. If I were going to give an example of *successful* reuse
of code it would be Perl.  Perl & Eiffel are about the same
age, I think.

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From: bks@netcom.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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