Op vrijdag 28 april 2006 11:20, schreef Thomas Beale: > I have just fixed one problem; please do a new update from Subversion > and recompile. > > If there is enough interest in the Eiffel version of openEHR, I will get > an Eiffel project group list created and we can operate within that, and > avoid annoying the main list with such details. People who are > interested in that please let me know.
I would appreciate that, for following reasons: - It could give us a platform-independent way of describing the openehr-kernel. Eiffel is easy to understand and easy to translate to most other languages. The only problem I can think of is that many languages do not support multiple inheritance, but there is a workaround for that, using interfaces. - I discovered that in my opinion there is a need for a formal point of where development of specificitions is. I noticed this week that some PDF's are not completely up to date. It really is safd when one spents an afternoon trying to understand something which is skipped from the formal specifications. A formal checkpoint makes it always possible to find out what really is the truth. And there are some things in the advantage of Eiffel (for those who don't know): - EiffelStudio is free and even open sourced now (for non-commercial use). It is a bit strange, and I must urge people to follow the instructions, takes about an afternoon to learn how to handel the IDE, there is a good instruction on the website: http://docs.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/general/guided_tour/environment/index.html Also follow the presentations from the website. And there is a very helpful and friendly Eiffel-community on comp.lang.eiffel. Without any problem the even help with stupid questions. They welcome new Eiffel-users. Takes some time, but it is easier to learn then most other languages - Eiffel is a very effective Object Oriented Language, you can write almost anything with/in it. It has some extra's, easy ways to find out which methods are inherited, dependency-graphics, many more things in their IDE - Eiffel has Design By Contract build in, you can do that in other languages to, but in Eiffel, some language features are really only there for this. When you see the presentations on www.eiffel.com, you will see regards Bert Verhees
