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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Followup to Dec. msg on the GNU Emacs Eiffel browser
Message-ID: <1726@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 01:59:55 GMT
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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I know I'm going to get some mail about this, but I figured it would be
better to inform people than to leave them hanging.  In December I asked
this newsgroup who would be interested in a fast Eiffel browser that
worked with GNU Emacs.  I received about 15 positive responses (more
than I expected) yet interestingly (from ISE's vantage point) no one
mentioned any willingness to pay for such a thing.

I hate to be a software hoarder but I do work for a commercial
enterprise.  The status is that the browser basically became too good
too fast and may now be considered proprietary by management (no
decision has yet been made).  But I can't do anything until we do make a
decision.  Truthfully, a basic inheritance browser is not a terribly
hard program to write if you know what your doing.  In fact, the same
browser now works with Eiffel, C++, and Objective-C.

So you can wait, you can write one for yourself, or you could encourage
ISE to understand that such a thing should be integrated with a popular
UNIX editor such as GNU Emacs and have them write one and sell it as
part of their commercial toolset.

Now if someone has a good Eiffel routine call tree analyzer, we should talk.
-- 
Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
(407) 364-2087