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

On 23/03/2025 8:20 pm, gcalliet wrote:

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

Alas, non, mon ami, I am but a probationary member of the Academie
Franglais, at best.

I only speak English, well my sincere emulation of such: Emuglish - my
grammar and punctuation remains decidedly iffy (never got the hand of
possessive apostrophes) - however I still speak fluent DCL - the joys of
f$lexical discourse.

VSI has it's rusted on client (and potential clients - The HP holdouts
of yore) customers of 30 years standing or more - however, I don't think
that they have had any new customers, yet, who have decided to bet their
businesses, or part of the businesses, on adopting the VSI/VMS platform.

A modern, disciplined, application building, language such as Eiffel,
and the Eiffel studio, might perhaps encourage such a miracle, as a new
shop in the VMS ecosystem.

VSI/VMS + Eiffel - it has great merit.