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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel on the Mac
Keywords: Agreement signed
Message-ID: <481@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 16:28:20 GMT
References: <379@eiffel.UUCP>
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In <379@eiffel.UUCP> darcyh@eiffel.UUCP (Darcy Harrison) writes:
>Interactive Software Engineering announced today that it has
>signed a formal agreement with The Knowledge Konnection (Oxnard, CA) for
>porting its Eiffel software on the Macintosh operating system.

I am disturbed that Eiffel is being ported to the Mac and to MS-DOS by
different companies.  The $64K question in my mind is that between these
three companies (including ISE) what is the commitment to portability of the
*class libraries*?  If the articles announcing these ports mentioned this I
surely missed it.  Will I be able to write GUI code in Eiffel which is
completely portable between X, Mac OS, and Windows 3.0?  (Without having to
invent my own class libraries, of course!!)  Are all the companies involved
COMMITTED to this?  If not, folks, you are *missing the boat*.  As a programmer
who has written not a line of Eiffel code, but who is most impressed with Dr.
Meyer's book, I can tell you that I would not touch Eiffel with a ten foot pole
unless portability of the GUI class library interface can be achieved.
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