Re: Liberty-eiffel Digest, Vol 50, Issue 14

[Duke Normandin]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:20:51 +0000 (UTC)
Peter Lubke <azador1606@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I too echo this sentiment.
> Up until 2002, I quite enjoyed Eiffel even if it wasn't truly
> commercial ready mainstream language. In 2002, when the
> initial .NET version came out I thought perhaps there was a
> commercial future here. Again later, Gobo Eiffel looked like an
> alternative UNTIL it went with ISE Eiffel compatibility. Liberty
> eiffel is as good as Eiffel was pre-2002. However, that's a 20
> year gap until now with very little development. I'm not saying
> it's not possible. My thought has been for some time that the
> language should fork. perhaps to a new name.

I'm beginning to think that I'm too old to be chasing after and
waiting a piece of software that has been dormant/struggling all
these years.

I went through that with Wirth and his Oberon System, and Oberon2,
and on and on - getting nowhere fast. IMHO, its was /because/ they
wanted to commercialise the thing. Same happened with Smalltalk.
Too many players! Divide and die!

I don't feel like going down that road again! Good luck with your
"resurrection" efforts everybody.
--
Duke
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