Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucsbcsl!eiffel!bertrand
From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Eiffel vs. C++
Message-ID: <149@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 18:21:40 GMT
References: <2689@ssc-vax.UUCP> <6590138@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From article <6590138@hplsla.HP.COM> by jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock):
> 
> I have heard rumers [sic] that there are a lot more problems in general with
> compilers for Eiffel than with compilers for C++.  Perhaps someone can
> illuminate.

	I'll be straightforward. We, the developers of Eiffel, are fed up
with ``rumers'' and slander. That the proponents of C++ are desperate
for technical arguments is understandable, but does not justify everything.

-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com