I have added the page "Why Eiffel?" to my home pages. This is a short
summary of all of Eiffel's best features.
http://web.mac.com/joynerian/iWeb/Ian%20Joyner/Eiffel.html
You can also navigate to my "Into Eiffel" paper from here.
While you are there you can find some interesting high-level language
information from the Burroughs link, like how the first ALGOL compilers
were written ? in fact a whole lot of interesting history - what did don
knuth do during his summer holidays as a college kid?
If anyone has any comments on Why Eiffel for improvement or points I may
have missed, please let me know.
Thanks
Ian
