From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T23:07:07+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Is this worth a try?

Dňa Štvrtok 16 Február 2006 10:38 Guido Kollerie napísal:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > Eiffel is:
> >
> > a) Completely dead, I'd say even more so than Smalltalk.
>
> Despite being 'completely dead' someone found it to be the appropriate
> tool to write a commercial Ruby IDE in, namely Arachno Ruby:
>

The popularity of a language is completely unrelated to whether it's a good 
tool for anything. I just wouldn't count on Eiffel paying your bills. It just 
could happen, but it's not very likely.

David Vallner