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It was held back by all of the compilers being commercial for a long time. Also the main advantage it has over C is safety, and nobody really took that serious
by IshKebab 1y ago
It was held back by all of the compilers being commercial for a long time.
Also the main advantage it has over C is safety, and nobody really took that seriously until recently (and it doesn't really have an answer for use-after-free which is a huge class of bugs).
- augustk 1y agoThe same thing happened to Bertrand Meyer's language Eiffel.
- technion 1y agoTwo separate classes in my University course was entirely done in Eiffel, I came out with the view it ran businesses everywhere and then never heard it again in the 25 years between then, and reading your comment above.
- Khaine 1y agoMy university's intro course was in Eiffel. For my year they switched to java
- bigger_cheese 1y agoMy intro course at university was also done in Eiffel, this was at the ANU in early 2000's
- shrubble 1y agoThe GNU Ada compiler has been out for decades and was integrated into GCC by 2002.