From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T23:18:27+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Is this worth a try?


Jim Weirich wrote:
> Greg Kujawa wrote:
> > I am trying out some other scripting languages and wanted to give
> > Eiffel a try. Since a lot of the folks who post here seem to be
....
>
> I played around with Eiffel for 3 years before switching to Ruby.  In 6
> months I wrote more Ruby code than in the entire 3 years of Eiffel.
> Productivity is way higher in Ruby.
>
> However, the concepts learned in Eiffel were valuable for me.  No, you
> are probably not going to land your next big job because you know
> Eiffel, but  learning to use Eiffel well will help you write better code
> in any OO language, IMHO.
>
> -- Jim Weirich
> 

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