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From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel questions
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Date: 25 Aug 89 07:46:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh    Aug 25 02:46:00 1989


This sounds like one of the most thoughtful notes I have ever had the pleasure
to read in a notesfile: in fact, until I read this note, I was rather skeptical
about the true intellectual content of object-oriented programming (smacking of
band-wagon fever, no doubt)...anyway, if you haven't read the base note, please
do: it is indeed most thought-provoking.
My own request is more urbane: why Eiffel? I mean, we have SmallTalk-80, C++,
LOOPS and FLAVORS, etc...what does Eiffel add?