Yeah, but it didn't have braces, so it never stood a chance /s Meyer's book where pretty highly ranked in the canon of OOD, so at least a few people knew the l

Yeah, but it didn't have braces, so it never stood a chance /s Meyer's book where pretty highly ranked in the canon of OOD, so at least a few people knew the language from there. But similar things could be said about Smalltalk. Eiffel was a bit in a weird place, though. C++ and later Java ate a lot of its customers, it didn't enter a smaller niche like Delphi and on the safe & secure side, you had Ada. Doesn't Meyer now have the professorship that Wirth had before? Apparently the place for the Cassandras of programming language design.