Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS

Le 23/03/2025 à 00:55, Subcommandante XDelta a écrit :

Wouldn't it be lovely, if the modern Eiffel OO programming language
and IDE, under active development, were to come back the VMS fold?
 But how to make that happen?
 https://www.eiffel.com/
 EiffelStudio
 A cost-effective way to develop quality applications
 EiffelStudio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), that
enable programmers to produce correct, reliable, maintainable software
and control the development process. If you want to create fast,
robust, scalable applications, then EiffelStudio gives you a
cost-effective option.
 Imagine being able to model your system as you think – capturing your
requirements and your thought processes with EiffelStudio. When you
are ready to design, you build upon the model you created.
 It is just that logical and easy!
 https://www.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/system-requirements/
 If my failing memory serves me, they dropped formal support for VMS
about a decade ago, but references to VMS are all through their
documents.
 VAX/VMS, AXP/VMS, could be easily resurrected, and VSI/VMS support
easily implemented...
 I fear that Team Eiffel don't even know that VSI exists, or that VMS
has a future.
 https://www.eiffel.com/resources/faqs/eiffel-language/
 https://www.eiffel.com/resources/faqs/eiffel-studio/
 https://www.eiffel.org/
 Quite a few Swedes there:
 https://www.eiffel.com/company/customers/
 Perhaps the Eiffel Team could be invited, or sponsored, to present at
the VSI boot camp in Malmo, Sweden, in may 2025?
 And given that the language is called Eiffel, perhaps the
VMSgenerations team could weigh in on the merits of bring back Eiffel
to the VMS fold, for the enrichment of the VMS ecosystem?

Dear Subcommandante,
Vous savez parler aux français. ("you know how to speak to the French").
Starting tomorrow, we'll be discussing it in the VMSgenerations working group.
For me, Eiffel is a benchmark. A great understanding of the art of programming. This made Eiffel a pioneer of contract programming, for example. And the oldest book by Bertrand Meyer (the designer of Eiffel) on introductory computer science (in French, well before object-oriented programming, for his company at the time) is one of the best books of its kind I've read.
I will do everything I can to follow your excellent suggestion.
Gérard Calliet