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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp/Eiffel?
Message-ID: <52619@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 04:15:07 GMT
References: <7402@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <7402@mace.cc.purdue.edu> nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>The following appears in an article in the 1991 April FrameWorks:
>
>	"Many of you have seen the traffic on MacApp.Tech$ discussing
>	the relative merits of C++, Pascal, Eiffel, and whatever else
>	happens to work with MacApp--or will someday."
>
>I'm intrigued by what people have been saying about the future
>prospects of Eiffel on the Mac.  Perhaps someone who reads that
>conference can summarize what's been said?

There's nothing earthshaking here. The writer of the above passage is
one James Plamandon. James, as any habitue of MacApp.Tech$ can tell
you, is an Eiffel freak, and spares no opportunity to make a plug for
it. His mentioning of Eiffel above is just another of his attempts to
gain mindshare for it.

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