Last Updated on September 19, 2024
Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer (an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction) and Eiffel Software.
As a language, Eiffel is more than a programming language. It covers not just programming in the restricted sense of implementation but the whole spectrum of software development:
- Analysis, modeling and specification, where Eiffel can be used as a purely descriptive tool to analyze and document the structure and properties of complex systems (even non-software systems).
- Design and architecture, where Eiffel can be used to build solid, flexible system structures.
- Implementation, where Eiffel provides practical software solutions with an efficiency comparable to solutions based on such traditional approaches as C and Fortran.
- Maintenance, where Eiffel helps thanks to the architectural flexibility of the resulting systems.
- Documentation, where Eiffel permits automatic generation of documentation, textual and graphical, from the software itself, as a partial substitute for separately developed and maintained software documentation.
Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn this language.
1. An Eiffel Tutorial (ET) – Official documentation
This Eiffel Tutorial (ET) should provide you with a broad understanding of what Eiffel is all about and why it is different from other technologies
2. EiffelStudio tutorials – Official documentation
This is a guided tour of Eiffel Software’s EiffelStudio interactive software development environment.
3. Invitation to Eiffel (I2E) – Official documentation
The Invitation to Eiffel (I2E) is a short set of pages that should provide you with the essence of the Eiffel way, without taking too much of your time.
4. Eiffel: The Essentials
This appendix addresses people who are familiar with the object-oriented approach but do not know Eiffel very well. It introduces all the concepts needed to understand the core.
All tutorials in this series:
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