Re: Liberty

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:05:27PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:47:47PM +0100, Cyril ADRIAN wrote:
> > Dear Eiffel users, hackers, and believers,
> > 
> > We are happy to announce the birth Liberty Eiffel.
> > 
> > Liberty Eiffel is born from a simple idea: the Open Source and Free
> > Software community needs a free-as-in-freedom Eiffel compiler that
> > tries to be follow the principles that made Eiffel so appealing.
> 
> Do have a look at Modula 3's run-time system.  Of the languages I've 
> seen supporting multithreading and garbage collection, Modula 3's 
> run-time system is among the best I've seen.  I'd love to see it used 
> for more language implementations, and I'd love to see some measure of 
> interoperability between Modula 3 and Eiffel, two of my favourite 
> languages.

Both Modula 3 and Eiffel have a small user base, and are starved for 
implementors.  They both have a philosophy of strong typing, objects, 
security.  They make mopre or less the same demands on their run-time 
systems.  Any collaboration between the two camps could be a win for 
both.

-- hendrik