Hi Daniel,
> I am preparing some slides for an Eiffel presentation including a
> short timeline, and there is a bit of data I have been able to found
> googling.... How old is Visual Eiffel? When it was released?
Visual Eiffel is almost ten years old. I have appended a copy of the
announcement that Frieder Monninger posted to various Usenet Newsgroups
on 16 October 1996.
Regards,
Roger Browne
From: Frieder Monninger <fm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Visual Eiffel for Windows 95/NT to be released
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:18:04 -0700
Organization: SIG Computer GmbH
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SIG Computer GmbH of Braunfels, Germany is poised to release Visual
Eiffel, the first Eiffel compiler designed specifically for the
Windows 95/NT platform.
This compiler is packed with features that you would expect from
a product of this name (not all features are included in the basic
package): (more information in http://www.sigco.com)
- Direct generation of 32-bit native code for Intel 386 and
above, with no need for a C compiler. (No more
configuration hassles with back-end C compilers.)
- High performance - Visual Eiffel is FAST!
- A true windows-hosted drag-and-drop integrated workbench
featuring:
- syntax highlighting
- debugger
- textual browser based on Eiffel short and flat forms
- graphical browser based on the BON notation
- GUI interface builder
- Direct access to the Windows API in Eiffel
- Generation of GUI applications and genuine Win32
console-mode applications
- Generation of DLLs, and calls to DLL routines
- The ability to produce precompiled sourceless
libraries that can be freely mixed and matched
- Libraries designed especially for Windows:
- WINLIB, an Eiffel encapsulation of the Windows API
- DALE, the Database Access Library (using ODBC)
- GRAPE, the high level GUI library
- WINE, the OLE cluster
- Eiffel specific libraries
- The Eiffel Library Standard Kernel cl*****
- SIG's own Container, Time/Date and Formatter clusters
- ISE's EiffelBase and WEL clusters
Visual Eiffel will be available in the three configurations:
- An evaluation license allows you to try Visual Eiffel for free. You
can download the software from SIG's FTP server. The evaluation
version allows you to compile projects to p-code, comes only with the
basic libraries and excludes the debugger.
- The personal license (US$299.00) adds the ability to compile to native
code (but without "finalization" - the final stage of optimization).
- The professional license (US$499.00) adds the ability to finalize the
generated code for maximum performance, and includes the DALE, GRAPE
and WINE libraries and the Interface Builder.
Until December 31, 1996 you can obtain Visual Eiffel at the following
reduced introductory prices:
Evaluation license: sorry, no reduction ;-)
Personal license: US$199.00
Professional license: US$350.00
Delivery will start on October 31st. The product will be shown for the
first time in Munich at the Systems Exhibition (21 to 25th of October).
If you plan to come to Munich - visit our stand: Hall 3, A01.
--
Frieder Monninger SIG Computer GmbH
<fm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> D 35619 Braunfels
http://www.sigco.com
+ 49 6472-2096 (fax -911 031)
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