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Date:2008-09-17T14:29:45.000000Z


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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The next few sections give a glimpse of the technical contributions of Eiffel, o
Eiffel has plenty of these. It has been around for more than a decade. Eiffel is available from several commercial and open-source providers. The number of licenses sold is in the tens of thousands. Reusable library classes are in the thousands.
The platforms covered range from Unix (all of Unix, the famous and the arcane) and Linux to VMS, OS/2, Windows 3. 1, Windows NT, Windows 95/98.
The platforms covered range from Unix (all of Unix, the famous and the arcane) and Linux to OpenVMS, OS/2, Windows 3. 1, Windows NT, Windows 95/98.
Particularly impressive is the growth of Eiffel usage in education. Eiffel is quickly becoming the language of choice for teaching modern software technology, including, increasingly, introductory programming. A dozen of excellent textbooks are now available from Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, Macmillan and others, with about as many announced just for the coming months.