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From: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: ISE deadlines missed (was Emacs Eiffel mode)
Message-ID: <1442@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 13:26:54 GMT
References:  <16636@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
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In article <16636@watdragon.waterloo.edu> afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes:
>Obviously, using Eiffel hasn't helped ISE eliminate these sort of problems.
>This type of experience does not look good for a company that advertises
>"Eiffel is the industrial application of software engineering techniques".

Although some of the tools ISE ships are
written in Eiffel (e.g. 'short'), they have
not yet taken the step of rewriting the
compiler in Eiffel (it's in C and YACC).  I
bet in retrospect they wish they had done it
earlier.  I think I heard they were going to
start rewriting it after 2.2 is released for
3.0.  That will be an important milestone.

 --dave yost