OpenEuphoria

Re: Pocket PC, Sucess anyone?

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Dec 14, 2005
• 867 views

Vincent wrote:
> 
> cklester wrote:
> 
> > And it costs so much that I just threw up a little in my mouth.
> 
> Yes it does!!! But for non commercial purposes, the enterprise edition edition
> is free to download and use unlimited. You just get an annoying splash screen
> with your programs and of course the non commercial license.
> 
> The free, open-source Eiffel compilers, like SmallEiffel and SmartEiffel are
> probably worth looking at too. But the proprietary system from ISE comes with
> a complete IDE, standard libraries, .NET compliance, 64 bit support support
> for platforms, contracts, and so much more. It does not have game and audio
> libraries, but with it's extensive C, C++, and Java interfacing mechanisms and
> full .NET support (can compile Eiffel code to MSIL), it could be rather easy
> to wrap these from several different languages.
> 
> What else is interesting is ISE Eiffel has recently been approved a standard
> by ECMA; Standard ECMA-367.
> 
> <a
> href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-367.pdf">http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-367.pdf</a>
> 

There's also Visual Eiffel (http://www.visual-eiffel.com) which is free for GPL
programs only (and therefore more crippled than the ISE version) but the
commercial version is cheaper (700euro).

SmartEiffel (http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/) (SmallEiffel is SmartEiffel now) is
alright except it's not standard. The libraries are different and more
importantly SmartEiffel is case-sensitive which can cause code to stop working.
Interesting fact on the *nix front is that GNOME's been considering using Eiffel
as it's main language for development.


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