Eiffel

Object oriented structured programming language in the Algol family, originally designed by Bertrand Meyer. Much like SmallTalk Eiffel has also suffered in the last few years due to companies that built commercial tools for the language have turned their attention to Java.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Eiffel

• ISE Eiffel - Commercial - Discontinued
• SmallEiffel - Open Source - Discontinued
• Tower Eiffel - Commercial - Discontinued

Classes and bindings

• Tower Eiffel Booch Classes - Freeware release of the old Booch classes that Tower used to sell, work with v2 of Tower Eiffel.
• A version of the O2 System Object oriented database was available with Eiffel bindings for a while.

A list of DOS implementations of Eiffel

• SmallEiffel - Open Source - Discontinued

A list of Eiffel implementations that run under Java

• J-Eiffel - Eiffel to Java compiler - Open source - Discontinued

Publications

• Bertrand Meyer: Object Oriented Software Construction - ISBN 0136291554 - In Print

The book where Eiffel was first described, but is actually a textbook of object-oriented methods rather than a Eiffel tutorial, originally published in 1988.

• Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel, the Language - ISBN 0-13-247925-7 - In Print
• IDL Eiffel CORBA Binding - By Tower Technology Corp., Cindy de la Torre Cicalese of George Washington University and Kim Rochat of IBM. - Initial proposal for standardisation by Tower Technology.

Related articles

• Joab Jackson: Eiffel: The language that OOP forgot?

Tutorials and other learning material

• ISE Eiffel Tutorial

Links

USENET

• comp.lang.eiffel - Low volume group - Go to the Google groups version if your ISP does not offer USENET access or you are in any other way newsgroup challenged.