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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Eiffel vs. C++
Message-ID: <2689@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 15:02:00 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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  I've been programming in C for about 5 years, and
just recently started using C++.  I would like to
start a discussion of Eiffel vs. C++.  I understand
that both languages use C as a base language, and
that both implement OOP features, and it seems as
though the two have much more in common, aside from
syntactic differences, than they have differences.

  Note that I'd like the discussion to center around
version 2.0 of C++ vs. the most current version of
Eiffel.

  I am aware of the fact that Eiffel has a robust
library of base classes, but I would like to see
a discussion of language *features*.

  About the only difference that I can discern is the
fact that Bertrand Meyer posts more often to comp.lang
.eiffel than Bjarne Stroustrup posts to comp.lang.c++
;-) ;-)
  
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