G'day!
Basically Eiffel has been perscribed at our uni for a particular unit, and well I love it. It is mainly prescribed because it "isn't C++ or Java, etc". So has anyone used it? Or know if it's widely used in industry?
Just probing for Eiffel information in the workforce or amongst C/C++ programmers.
Zac
I learned Eiffel in one particular course at university (along with other somewhat obscure languages - the course was about language designed and featured Eiffel as an example). In this time, I learned to absolutely despise it. The worst shortcoming in my opinion is the atrocious documentation about the language itself. But I also found its syntax to be overly verbose, which just goes along with everything else in the language. The pre- and post-conditions as well as the invariants are nice on paper, but in practice turned out to be mostly annoying - a bit like Java's checked exceptions. The language is not truly typesafe, either.
So I would definitely not recommend it to anyone.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
There's a whole litany of obscure languages to explore various aspects of computer science. Some of them escape the walls of academia, and gather a small cult following.
Then there are a handful of useful languages which 99% of programmers use to get something useful done.
You'll probably come across several. Just take what you can from the course and then forget it all
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
I've only learned a handful of languages, but every time I do I love it; I think what I really love is something about the nature of computer programming (it's just so gosh darned clever how it works) and I "transfer" that feeling onto the new language, to the extent that it exposes some new aspect or perspective. Then a few days later I wake up and think "God, what I have done?"Originally Posted by zacs7
A new perspective can be intriguing, but if a month from now you find yourself board of eiffel and pining afresh for your old loves, that's what happened.
Just a thought.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
FWIW, the number of languages I use today, which I learnt at university is a big fat ZERO.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
I see, thankyou
But at least they're "forcing" us to look at other languages which has to be good.
> A new perspective can be intriguing, but if a month from now you find yourself board of eiffel and pining afresh for your old loves, that's what happened.
Sounds about right
