Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ?

Hendrik Boom wrote:

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>Just to round out the list:  Have a look at Modula-3.  It is NOT,
>I repeat NOT, the same as Modula-2.
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>Oh yes.  Modula-3 does do shared libraries, garbage-collection, and
>shared-memory parallelism.  I think it even does all this with native threads.
>I've heard that the 911 emergency response system in Montreal
>was implemented using Modula-3, and that they are quite happy
>with it.  It does seem to be quite good for reliability.
>
>And it's available on a lot of platforms.  On Windows, though, it uses
>the Microsoft linker, so you already have to have a Microsoft
>compiler installed (but it doesn't seem to matter much what language
>the Microsoft compiler compiles, as far as I know.  Modula-3 just
>uses the linker.)
>
>-- hendrik
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Yes, but Modula3 is as moribund as Sather.  I never really investigated 
how good either was, because by the time I went to look at them it was 
an obvious waste of time, no matter HOW good they were.  Eiffel is 
teetering on the edge of going the same way.