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> As a teenager I read "Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer, and was convinced that Eiffel was THE programming language of choice. > Howev
by pbowyer 7y ago
> As a teenager I read "Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer, and was convinced that Eiffel was THE programming language of choice.
> However, that love didn't last long. Too many simple things just took way too much effort to do, and most damning of all, there was no working ecosystem of libraries.
Same! I still have the book on my shelf.
- amelius 7y agoMe too. If anybody would like to have a taste of the ideas of Meyer, then have a look at this paper: http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/acm/typing.pdf http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/acm/typing.pdf