TENTH INTERNATIONAL EIFFEL USER CONFERENCE
Jean-Marc Nerson
TENTH INTERNATIONAL EIFFEL USER CONFERENCE
Westfalenhallen, Dortmund - Germany
Friday April 3, 1992
(During the TOOLS EUROPE '92 week)
Call for participation and registration form
The Tenth International Eiffel User Conference will be held
in Dortmund during the week of TOOLS EUROPE '92 (Technology of
Object-Oriented Languages and Systems) on March 30 - April 2.
As with the past nine conferences, the April 1992
meeting will provide a forum for users to share experiences
and interact with implementors.
The conference will be held in Dortmund, Germany on Friday, April 3.
The venue is the Westfalenhallen, Dortmund, at a location to be announced.
The conference will proceed from 9:00am to 5:00pm,
followed by a reception. (The Nonprofit International Consortium for
Eiffel will meet in same place at a date and time to be announced; for any
information on the Consortium meeting, which is open to Consortium
members only, please contact dar...@eiffel.com.)
The meeting will be devoted to user presentations and panel discussions.
Representatives of Interactive Software Engineering will
give a preview of future developments of their implementation and tools.
The conference is open to Eiffel users and to anyone
maintaining a serious interest in Eiffel.
Participants are invited to submit contributions on
Eiffel-related topics; contributions may be in the form of
technical presentations, or proposals for working groups or panels.
Authors of accepted contributions will attend the meeting free of charge.
Technical presentations may be submitted as either
complete papers or one-page abstracts.
Examples include:
o Reports on experiences with Eiffel.
o Description of current or future projects.
o Interfaces with other tools and systems (graphics
packages, database management systems, expert systems, etc.).
o Presentations of reusable components written in Eiffel.
o Role of Eiffel for teaching software engineering and
computer science.
Abstracts, including those for incomplete or ongoing
work are acceptable. Presentations should be made in English.
Possible topics for working groups or panels are:
o Procedures for sharing reusable classes between users.
o Language standardization.
o Using Eiffel for teaching.
o User views on the evolution of the language, tools and library.
o User Group Activities.
For any information on the format of the meeting, or to
discuss a possible contribution, you may contact:
Francois Dupont or Jean-Marc Nerson
Societe des Outils du Logiciel
104 rue Castagnary
75015 Paris - FRANCE
Phone: +33 1 45 32 58 80
Fax: +33 1 45 32 58 81
E-mail: eif...@eiffel.fr
REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSIONS
All prospective participants, whether or not they wish
to submit a presentation, should return the form below to the
address above, attention User Conference.
Please use one copy of the form per participant.
The form should be mailed as soon as possible to ensure
space in the conference.
It should be accompanied by the registration fee of
250 French Francs for Eiffel users
with up-to-date maintenance contracts,
and members of the International Eiffel User Group,
500 French Francs for others.
The fee includes conference material, lunch and the
evening reception.
Any proceeds from the registration fee will be
transferred to the Eiffel User Group.
Practical information (schedule etc.) will be mailed to
registered participants.
<cut here> ------------ REGISTRATION FORM ----------
Please register the following person to the Tenth
International Eiffel User Conference
NAME: ______________________________________________
ADDRESS: ___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
TELEPHONE: __________________ FAX: __________________
E-MAIL: __________________
/ / I am submitting a presentation. (Please enclose title and abstract
on a separate sheet)
/ / I would like to chair
/ / a working group / / a panel on the following topic:
I am enclosing / / a check
/ / Credit Card Number (Visa, M/C) Exp. Date:
___________________________________________ _______
Authorized Signature: ________________________________
Fee enclosed, amount (circle one) : / / 250.00 FF / / 500.00 FF
Bertrand Meyer
in <7...@feiffel.UUCP> by ma...@eiffel.fr (Jean-Marc Nerson), a workshop
on typing is planned (as mentioned in an earlier message).
This will be in the afternoon, possibly in parallel with another session.
The idea is to have an in-depth technical discussion, not necessarily
involving a large group.
If you are interested in this session, and haven't written to me
about it yet, please send me a note at bert...@eiffel.com indicating
if you just want to attend or intend to make a presentation.
For the registration and any other matter regarding the conference
please do as indicated in Jean-Marc Nerson's message.
--
-- Bertrand Meyer
Interactive Software Engineering Inc., Santa Barbara
bert...@eiffel.com
John Nagle
there's something wrong.
John Nagle
James McKim
Yes. What's wrong is your hypothesis that "nobody uses it." Obviously,
there have been nine Eiffel Users Conferences because a goodly number
of people do use it.
But don't take my word for it. Come to one of the conferences and see
for yourself!
-- Jim
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Rob Pooley
>
> This is the TENTH conference? And still nobody uses it? Maybe
If technical merit was related to usage, I doubt that most advances in programming
languages would ever be made. Conversely, Fortran, Cobol, Ada etc. etc. would have
lost their users to Algol 60, SIMULA, Modula 2 respectively or never have been
written. I don't USE Eiffel much, but I am glad it was invented to challenge the
tendency to design languages by accretion which seems to be all too common. If it has
survived seveeral years without large institutional backing, it most be doing
something worthwhile.
This year sees the 25th anniversary of SIMULA. SIMULA is proud of its vigorous
offspring, including Eiffel and the respect is mutual. Each has given something to
language design which would have been a loss if it had not been there.
Rob Pooley,
an old timer from SIMULA
Patrick Podenski
>In article <1992Feb17.191...@netcom.COM> na...@netcom.COM (John Nagle) writes:
>> This is the TENTH conference? And still nobody uses it? Maybe
>>there's something wrong.
>>
steadily growing in use. A good example is the decision by the ESPRIT
Business Class project to use Eiffel for their project. As I understand
it, this project is scoped at 600+ man months of effort.
One complaint that I do have is lack of Eiffel on Macintosh OS.
Bertrand Meyer
(John Nagle) comments about the recent announcement for the forthcoming
tenth international Eiffel user conference, to be held in Dortmund
(Germany) on April 3:
> This is the TENTH conference? And still nobody uses it? Maybe
> there's something wrong.
A small clarification may be useful here. As Mr. Nagle so
competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact
until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th
person just started, so we are holding a conference,
appropriately titled the TENTH EIFFEL USER conference,
to celebrate.
The new user is in Canada, hence the word ``international'';
this is like ``world'' in ``world series'' for baseball.
We hope this helps clarify the issue, and sincerely apologize
for any confusion the posting may have caused.