>I've never developed in Eiffel but I've met people who have.

Did they like it?

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>I do expect that methodologies for software engineering and development will continue to mature as time goes on and it looks like Eiffel will have a role in this.
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>Also, I found this news item at www.eiffel.com
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>Bill Gates praises Eiffel to 7000 Windows developers
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>July 12, 2000
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> Eiffel was featured prominently at the 10th Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Orlando this week, described by Microsoft officials as the most important event since the first PDC introduced Windows in 1991. Among the major innovations of the .NET framework introduced this week is the ability to combine languages in a completely seamless fashion, including cross-language inheritance and cross-language debugging. Eiffel is one of the first languages supported in this new architecture.
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I saw this - one of the things that prompted me to ask my question.
It's going to be called Eiffel# (sharp)