Re: [eiffel-nice-board] [Fwd: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Eiffel Class Struggle 2001]

[Frieder M. <fm...@ob...>]

At 12:47 28.07.2001 -0700, Joseph wrote:
>I actually kind of like this idea as well.
>
>This relates to my concern about libraries vs. applications.  Applications
>have always been a big part of the EiffelStruggle entries and if we

.. I wonder why you start to discuss these things now, not 2-3 month ago, when
I suggested the "Gobo centration".  At this time there was no reaction at 
all - and
I understood this as "silence acceptance"

Ok, lets start to discuss:

I think that

1. a useful library is the last chance Eiffel has.
2. it still has this chance
3. the extended Gobo is the only serious attempt which may (with much luck 
and much support)
    I can see to be this library.

I started the class struggle some years ago .. and I see that it is scaling 
down - the
quality of the entries becomes .. (ok, no comment). And the last years winner
has made no attempt to continue the "tradition" to organize the next one. 
So, to
some extent "Class Struggle" is death.

The idea behind the class struggle was to support Eiffel.To tell the truth,
how specialized and isolated applications (and even libraries) support 
Eiffel in these days ?

I am firmly convinced that Nice should signal the future direction - and 
that Nice should
spend money only in activities supporting Eiffel and Eiffel usage.

Thats the reason I ask Nice to "revive" the Class Struggle with new Rules - 
and a new target:
not more and not less as to "help Gobo to grow and to save Eiffel".






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