Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!murdoch.acc.virginia.edu!bglenden From: bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Eiffel: Divorce paper and Numerical Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 22:33:01 GMT Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory Lines: 26 Questions from an Eiffel beginner (we are going to try some prototyping in Eiffel, and decide about implementation later - likely fall back is C++). 1. Does anyone have any comments on the paper (which I have not yet found) called something like: "After the divorce: Reflections on using Eiffel at Cognos" which has a reference of something like: SOOPPA Proceedings , page 66, year ??? (What is SOOPA?). Someone who has heard that we are considering Eiffel has recommended this paper as a conterargument. 2. Conspicuously absent from the Eiffel libraries book are what I'd call "math" classes - complex, matrix and the like. Do such exist, or is Eiffel unsuited to problems that have significant numeric work (ours does) (I realize that much of the implementation might be in another language with a class wrapper). Thank you. Brian -- Brian Glendenning - National Radio Astronomy Observatory bglenden@nrao.edu bglenden@nrao.bitnet (804) 296-0286