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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel Questions
Summary: Eiffel /= Ada
Keywords: Eiffel Questions, Bug
Message-ID: <199@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 17:23:17 GMT
References: <5400@wiley.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From <5400@wiley.UUCP> by trwarcadia!simpson@usc.edu (Scott Simpson):

> 2. What's the status of adding concurrency to Eiffel?

	In progress
> 
> 3. Is there a InterViews-like UIMS done in Eiffel?
> 
> 4. Are there Xlib, X toolkit, HP widgets, Sony widgets, etc. bindings
> done in Eiffel?

	The current 2.2 version includes a windowing and graphics library
which is simple, robust (we hope), easy to use, portable.
To all the extent possible, it saves
programmers from having to dive into the (somewhat horrible) details
of X Windows, offering clean abstractions such as window, menu, event,
mouse, figure, circle etc.

	The library is not yet a full-fledged mechanism for constructing
user interfaces. Work on tools and abstractions of a higher level is in
progress.

	We are aware of several existing developments by users who
have produced high-level Eiffel graphics systems and UIMS (one in particular
based on Open Look).
-- 
-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com