Ask HN: what is the problem with Eiffel (the programming language)?

2 points by yannickmahe 15y ago ↗ HN

I just saw an ad in Gmail for the Eiffel programming language. It feels kind of weird that a programming language would need to advertise.

Has anybody ever used it? What are the reasons for its lack of success?

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mhd 15y ago ↗

Took too long to get free, cross-platform implementations out there - reducing it to yet another proprietary programming language and/or some pseudocode for learning from Meyer's book (which is good, if a bit opinionated).

Then SmallEiffel came out, and it actually got used for a few pet projects across the internet, but as far as I can see, it changed its name to "SmartEiffel" and died.

Also: Ada. (and, well, if that is stealing your thunder…)