Everhart,Glenn From: Bertrand Meyer [Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 3:11 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Eiffel for VMS Interactive Software Engineering has released version 4.2 of ISE Eiffel for Open VMS. This is the first full release of Eiffel for VMS. It includes the entire EiffelBench environment: compilation, powerful interactive class browsing, graphical debugging, documentation tools (with generation of HTML and many other formats), ANSI-C code generation for efficiency and portability, EiffelBase library of data structures and fundamental algorithms, EiffelVision platform-independent graphical library (compatible source code for graphical applications across VMS, Unix, Linux, Windows 95, Windows NT), Motif Eiffel Library for Motif graphics, EiffelNet library for multi-platform object interchange, EiffelParse and EiffelLex for parsing and lexical analysis, etc. Eiffel is a comprehensive method and language for building quality software, based on full application of object-oriented principles. It is described in a number of books including "Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition" (Prentice Hall, 1997, Jolt award winner, see http://www.eiffel.com/doc/oosc.html), focusing on the method, and "Eiffel: The Language" (Prentice Hall, 1992, see http://www.eiffel.com/doc/index.html#etl), describing the language. ISE Eiffel puts strong emphasis on portability, providing full source compatibility across a wide range of platforms: Windows NT, Windows 95, all major brands of Unix (Solaris, SunOS, SGI Irix, Cray, HP-UX both 9.5 and 10.20, IBM RS-6000, Unixware etc.), Linux, and now VMS. This gives customers a way to preserve their software investment independently of their hardware choices and the evolution of the industry. The generation of ANSI-C packages from Eiffel is a further guarantee. Extensive information about the Eiffel approach may be found at http://www.eiffel.com. For any questions please contact Interactive Software Engineering at <info@eiffel.com>. -- Bertrand Meyer, ISE Inc. ISE Building, 2nd floor, 270 Storke Road, Goleta CA 93117 805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, <Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com> http://www.eiffel.com