Paul Boddie a écrit : > [comp.lang.ruby snipped] > > Ray wrote: >> I've met a number of >> people who've told me they'd program in Eiffel if they could. And hey, >> perhaps in its day Eiffel *was* the best OO language out there. >> Certainly it looked cleaner than C++! :) > > So why don't they? Management pressure? Why don't people write more > Python in their day job? Any suggestions?
Probably because of the extreme Bondange And Disciplineness of Eiffel, the incredible cost of each user license, lack of generic programing ( you know, the thing easy to do in Python/Ruby but requires templates in C++ ) and the complete lack of a correct debugger. By now, it seems that some of those problems have been fixed in various ways but we now have even better : incompatible implementations of the language! Eiffel is for all purposes a niche language only used by some fanatics here and there :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
