RE: [GD-General] Eiffel

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

At 09:50 AM 12/21/2001 -0600, Paul Bleisch wrote:
>One thing that I see a lot is the attitude that "we use C++
>for the engine, so I guess we gotta use it everywhere."

I use C++ because the subset of the language I use is portable and will 
generate a binary on any platform I care to support.  That's a pretty 
important consideration.  Odder languages like Eiffel or Obj-C are a bit 
more problematic and may lack many of the ancillary tools that people find 
necessary for development.

Another thing pushing me away from Eiffel is that I have a huge amount of 
code written in C++ that I don't feel like rewriting or bridging to.  This 
is just inertia working against ostensibly better languages.

And people write tools in what they feel is the most effective fashion 
possible.  For many people, it's a huge assumption that it's faster to 
write a tool with C++ and MFC than it is to learn a new 
language/environment.  Fair assumption, but in the case of Obj-C/Cocoa, 
dead wrong.

I'm leaning back towards Obj-C for a server program I'm working on simply 
because the latest version of GCC supports Obj-C++, which allows me to use 
Obj-C for all my core stuff and still call out to my C++ frameworks for 
stuff I may need.

Brian