From: Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T17:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"

Morton:

> IMO, Bertand Meyer and his colleagues are ones who have taken the
> baton from Wirth and gone forward to develop a modern, elegant, and
> fully object-oriented language from Pascal (via Ada) -- Eiffel. In
> some ways, the antithesis of Ruby, Eiffel, because it so well
> designed and because it is backed up with excellent libraries, is
> also a very satisfying language to program in.
>

Maybe I'm mis-parsing that. Are you saying that Eiffel is the
antithesis of Ruby because it is well-designed and has excellent
libraries?

Martin