Re:Eiffel programming language
by pjmlp on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:19AM
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Wirth has mentions in one of its articles, not sure which, that he just expected too much from mainstream.
He was convinced, that by building such systems, mainstream programmers that cared about quality engineering would just flock to Modula-2 and Oberon, and in retrospect some advertising effort could have been done.
Modula-3 was killed by Compaq and HP, after their cascade acquisition from Olivetti research labs, they never cared about this kind of research.
Rust might have better chance, because just like it happened with C++ vs C, there are a couple of big names that care about it nowadays. Microsoft just had an internal Rust Summit.
Also Ada is still around, NVidia and Genode OS being two relevant names that have recently adopted it for security critical software layers.
He was convinced, that by building such systems, mainstream programmers that cared about quality engineering would just flock to Modula-2 and Oberon, and in retrospect some advertising effort could have been done.
Modula-3 was killed by Compaq and HP, after their cascade acquisition from Olivetti research labs, they never cared about this kind of research.
Rust might have better chance, because just like it happened with C++ vs C, there are a couple of big names that care about it nowadays. Microsoft just had an internal Rust Summit.
Also Ada is still around, NVidia and Genode OS being two relevant names that have recently adopted it for security critical software layers.
Ada has had RAII since Ada95.