Re: How to boost Eiffel?

On 10 Mrz., 04:27, A.L. <alewa...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

a) If you will be able to do in Eiffel this what you can do with J2EE
and as easily as with J2EE,  Eiffel will have a chance

Hmm, i don't see a way that any other technology will beat J2EE
on the server. Java works just too well here.

I have to say this even when i have to admit that i don't like Java.
Really i don't like it. But i would consider Java for all complex web
jobs and the scripting languages for the small web jobs.


b) If Eiffel becomes compatible with Java JVM and/or .NET platorm,
Eiffel will have a chance

As George said we have this already.

c) If there becomes obvious that Eiffel is supported by company at
least 10% of the size of Microsoft, Eiffel will have a chance.

Reference customers are nice but IMHO not really required.
Ruby never had one but Rails boosted the languages success.

By the way, there are new trends: functional languages are more and
more used by the industry. Specifically, Scala (JVM platform) and F#
(.NET platform). Eiffel is the revelation of the past

I don't know what you are looking at. But i haven't seen anything
like this. Don't know about Scala but i followed F# the last years.
I know that the Ocaml C implementation is unuseable for large
real world projects - thats why you don't find any large Ocaml
project.

But i agree that functional langauges might be worth to watch in the
future. It is much easier to use multithreading in a functional side-
effect
free programming world then in imperativ languages. But i doubt that
OCAML
will be doing this and definitely not F# which sits on a imperativ
optimized .NET intermediate language.
.

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