[elj-devel] Re[2]: Windows/Mac cross platform GUI ...

[Lothar S. <ll...@we...>]

Hello Berend,

Friday, January 23, 2004, 9:27:59 AM, you wrote:

BdB> This is not correct. Eric Bezault has not abandoned SmartEiffel, but
BdB> complained about introduction of features that make writing portable
BdB> Eiffel code harder. And about features that are against the
BdB> standard. A simple solution would be a -compliant flag or so, but the
BdB> SE team has so far rejected that idea.

I got a personal mail from him which says that he don't even talk to
the Smarteiffel people anymore on bugs etc. And that he has more
interests in extending the eiffel parser from the GOBO project with a
code generating backend then to support the current way SmartEiffel is
evolving.

BdB> Uwe Sander had other problems, which I'm not sure were Eiffel
BdB> related. Anyway, he is programming in C now, and we won't seem him

He said on the mailing list that now where we can write only for one compiler
eiffel source code he is not able to use Eiffel in his corporate
environment, nor can he promote the language anymore.


So both are direct results of the attitude of the core SmartEiffel
development team.

BdB> That last thing is important for people writing wrappers, a very
BdB> popular activity in the past and at present: use ewg and your done in
BdB> a couple of minutes what would have took you half a year before or so.

Hmm but this don't give you the power of Eiffel. You still have to
write an upper layer over your base wrappings. At least for GUI
libraries. Or are there any plans for ewg to make intelligent use of
agents, multiple inheritance or design by contract.

Even your EPOSIX library is far more then a simple 1:1 C wrapper.


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 Lothar                            mailto:ll...@we...