Eiffel : The Language (Prentice Hall Object-Oriented Series)

By Chip Huyen

Book Overview

Quickly emerging as the language of choice for developers of quality software, this guide explains how the Eiffel language combines rigorous software engineering principles with advanced object-oriented techniques. It reveals the simplicity, consistency, and blend of various powerful mechanisms in Eiffel, including: an object-oriented structure based on classes ; multiple and repeated inheritance information hiding assertions to guarantee, document, and test the correctness of software components; strong typing backed by support for generic classes; dynamic binding a highly dynamic run-time model supporting garbage collection renaming and redefinition facilities . . . disciplined exception handling and support for persistent objects. As both an implementation language and a high-level notation for analysis and design, Eiffel emphasizes the industrial production of reusable software components. Written for software designers, analysts, and programmers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132479257
• ISBN13: 9780132479257
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Exhaustive, Detailed Language Definition

Eiffel has been developed by the Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE) for the last 17 years. This book is the language definition as proposed by that committee. It is exhaustive and of such high detail as to allow anyone to write a compiler for the language. My hat is off to the Eiffel consortium for their efforts to explicitly define the language in an open standard, making the developer's job easier.I sympathize...

An excellent source.

This is an excellent book for someone approaching Eiffel with zero prior knowledge of the language, and with zero knowledge of OOP. I am one of those rare people who still writes only in C and thinks (thought) that OOP is (was) for the birds. I strongly recommend this as an introduction both to Eiffel and to OOP. It's clear, concise, complete, and very well written/organized/presented.