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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Basic info
Message-ID: <1962@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 12:36:02 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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Thanks for the reply.  It's starting to make sense now.

sarkela@eiffel.UUCP (John Sarkela) writes:
| Eiffel runs on a wide range of unix platforms.
| This list is not exhaustive, and ports to new
| platforms running something which resembles SystemV or BSD 4.x tend
| to be trivial.
	[...]
| Eiffel is most certainly a compiler, or if you prefer, a translator.
| The Eiffel compiler produces a portable subset of C as its output for
| reasons of portability.

So it seems that Eiffel is tied to Unix, but I don't see how.  Is the
only thing really required to run Eiffel a good C compiler to crunch
on the output from Eiffel?  Or does it require some service offered by
Unix?

Also, how all-encompassing is Eiffel?  Is it a compiler in the sense of
C or FORTRAN, or is it an environment in the sense of Smalltalk?

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu