Eiffel

Futura agenda

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

5 strutture dati strane (ma utili) nell’informatica (“5 Strange (but useful) Data Structures in Computer Science”).

Let’s look at five weird data structures that will help you when the arrays and hashmaps of this world aren’t enough.

Do we have it in Liberty Eiffel? ROPE is part of the standard library. The other are “futura agenda”, i.e. “things that must be done in the future”, at least when speaking of LibertyEiffel

Name hijacking

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

I like the programming language named Eiffel, at least since 1998. Now I discover its name is somehow being robbed by a CI/CD project.

I simply had to let Bertrand Meyer, father of Eiffel know it. The easiest way I found is throught X (once known as Twitter):

Dear professor @Bertrand_Meyer, I’m sure you have been informed of https://eiffel-community.github.io Isn’t their name picking choise a little confusing, to say the least?

I also left the same message as a comment on his blog.

I know the name space of project looks almost exausted but coudln’t they conceive another name?

Watabou’s Procgen Arcana is is a collection of free map generators for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding. Currently, it consists of six generators, all of them are in active development. They are proprietary but free to use and they are made with Haxe

Haxe – The Cross-platform Toolkit

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language.

All those “open source” have the same targets that Eiffel had 30-40 years ago… this for example already have commercial, hefty “Support Plans”, starting from an yearly rate of 6000€ (six thousand euros).

One thing I think they got right is that Haxe allows you to compile for several targets:

Liberty has C, and once had JVM. Ideally I wish to “resurrect” the JVM and add PHP (yes) and Python, or at least improve the interoperability with those languages.