Eiffel Language

Eiffel has borrowed from many languages ... I'm sure if we could have found features we liked in C++, we would have borrowed from it as well.
        -- Bertrand Meyer (paraphrase)

Features

• Emphasis on program correctness.
• Supports Design by Contract
• Ada-like syntax
• Statically type safe (mostly)
• Supports Multiple Inheritance (the right-way)
• Supports generic classes.
• Garbage Collected
• Support for multiple views of Eiffel source code.
• Language is controlled by N.I.C.E. (Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel) with a strong guiding hand by Bertrand Meyer (the language designer).
• Strong support for Free Software amoung Eiffel programmers.

Example

Products

GNU SmallEiffel (Open Source)

Free software compiler for Eiffel. Many innovative optimization techniques (www.loria.fr/projets/SmallEiffel/).

ISE Eiffel (Proprietary/Trial version available)

Eiffel from the folks who designed Eiffel (www.eiffel.com).

For More Information

• http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel.html (Cetus)
• http://www.elj.com/ (Eiffel Liberty .. Also good for links on Python and Perl)