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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel-generated C is useless
Message-ID: <204@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 19:09:13 GMT
References: <73293@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <345@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From <345@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> by belle@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Steve Belle),
with quotations from <73293@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> by
jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus):

... [Various complaints, and questions about the reality of 2.2] ...

> Dr. Meyer, would you care to respond on the net?

Certainly. Version 2.2 has been shipping for several weeks,
and our delivery floor is filled with boxes containing the last
ready-to-mail deliveries.

According to Tom McCarthy, our VP of sales and marketing, every Eiffel
site in the US which has not yet received 2.2 will get it next week.
More explicitly, he would like anyone who has not received the delivery
by NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT (October 12) to send E-mail directly to him
(tmc@eiffel.com) or call him at 805-685-1006.

Please give one more week (Oct. 19) for Canada, and two (Oct. 26) for the
rest of the world, where the proper contact may be not Interactive but local
distributors.

I hope this is clear enough.

I am the major person to blame for the delay in 2.2.
(Not our ``sales people'', who are meticulously honest and only promise
what the ``technical people'' such as myself allow them to say.)
I was personally responsible for adding many new elements to version
2.2, going far beyond the initial plans and endangering timely completion
of the release; whenever unexpected problems arose, I was the one who
said ``do it anyway'', regardless of the delays implied; finally, I am
still the prime author of Eiffel documentation, including the new
reference manual (``Eiffel: The Language''), and documentation played
its part in the schedule slippage.

I apologize to anyone whose personal plans were disrupted by the delay
in putting out 2.2 and I hope that the result is worth the wait.

-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com