On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:06, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Eiffel is established as a language significant to Open Source in Healthcare. > > An article on the merits of adopting it as a successor to C++ for developing > the Gnome GUI/desktop environment is worth noting. > > http://developers.slashdot.org/ > article.pl?sid=04/04/11/1436234&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=131&tid=156&tid=189 > > The Hardhats list recently hosted a series of primers on M/MUMPS which were > interesting, perhaps if someone cared to run through an exercise in Eiffel it > would also help the non-users appreciate how the language goes.
I found the "Invitation to Eiffel" document at http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/online/eiffel50/intro/language/ to be very useful. After reading that, I was left with the impression that Eiffel would be a fantastic way of implementing a fully worked-out design, but that despite its declarative nature it might be a bit tedious or cumbersome to use for prototyping and iterative refinement of designs. Thus, probably an excellent choice for core health information systems. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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