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

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From: Jim Stevenson's reader
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:44

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jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes:

>bks@netcom.com wrote 17.03.96 on Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer:

>> 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.

>Or, to state it bluntly: We'd still program in machine code if the first  
>assembler had been dismissed because no Important Contribution had been  
>done with it yet.
	COME ON, look EIFFEL has been around how many years???  Look
EIFFEL is cumbersome.  I'm willing to bet the time assembly saved over
Machine Language allowed apps. to be written very quickly with a fast
turnaround and assembly's value was quickly realized!  That HAS NOT
HAPPENED WITH eiffel !!!!!!  EIFFEL has some merit for mission critical
programming that needs EXTENSIVE error checking; BUT for apps that one
doesn't worry about near 100% code correctness ( ie ANY app that has a
deadline ) EIFFELL's not the language for the job.


>Im speaking for myself here.
	ME TOO !!!!!!!!

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From: jim-ra@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jim Stevenson's reader)
Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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