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From: peter@hpkslx.HP.COM (Peter Huang 1-691-5272)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Eifel: info please
Message-ID: <1620001@hpkslx.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 88 21:58:56 GMT
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/ hpkslx:comp.lang.c++ / djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) /  3:09 pm  Mar  4, 1988 /

I just read part of a posting about a language called 'Eifel'.  
>> Are you referring language called 'Eiffel'?

Still, I like to learn about every language that I can, and the intro 
said that Eifel has multiple inheritance.  So I am interested.   Anybody 
know how I can find out more about it?  Recommend a book? 

>> Eiffel is a product from Interactive Software Engineering, Inc. 
>> Their address is 270 Storke Road, suite 7, Goleta, Ca. 93117.  The
>> only documentation I knew is the one from them. There is a article on 
>> IEEE Software (March 1987) by the author of the software.  It is based
>> on Simula.  

All the usual questions:

  1. Is it commercially available (for Sun workstations) at a reasonable
	price?
>> I saw the demo on a Sun workstation. I forgot the price, somewhere around
>> 1k.

  2. Is it object-compatible with old libraries (C and Fortran, etc.)?
>> It generates c code


  3. Are compile-times quick?
>> good question

  4. Does it have a compiler/dynamic-linker that can be loaded into an
     application?
>> there is a article on Computer Language (Sept, 1986) about a product 
>> Cepage using Eiffel