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Re:Eiffel programming language by pbowyer on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:30AM (#22282538)
> As a teenager I read "Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer, and was convinced that Eiffel was THE programming language of choice.

> However, that love didn't last long. Too many simple things just took way too much effort to do, and most damning of all, there was no working ecosystem of libraries.

Same! I still have the book on my shelf.

Re:Eiffel programming language by amelius on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:58AM (#22282677)
Me too. If anybody would like to have a taste of the ideas of Meyer, then have a look at this paper:

http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/acm/typing.pdf