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From: heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel on Sun-OS
Message-ID: <7322@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 89 20:53:24 GMT
References: <228@my6.sm.luth.se> <113@eiffel.UUCP>
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In article <113@eiffel.UUCP> bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:

>  Since most Sun sites who have not yet adopted
>4.0 seem to intend to do so soon, we are considering making
>Eiffel 2.2 available on SunOS 4.0 only. If this is felt
>unreasonable by readers of this newsgroup, I would appreciate
>hearing the screams now.
>
Scream, scream.   Many of those who have 'upgraded' to 4.0 are
unhappy.  It is slower, and its compilers are buggy.  Lots of us
have decided to stick with our present version for the forseeable
future -- at least until 4.0 gets stable.


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| Vince Heuring     Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering	|
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