When choosing a programming language, going the road less traveled is sometimes the best choice. Defense contractor Xontech Inc., for example, found that by using the relatively obscure Eiffel ...

In a recent discussion in ITworld.com’s Interviews forum, Bertrand Meyer, an object-oriented software theorist and developer of the Eiffel programming language, discussed certain reservations he ...

In the 1970s, Xerox's Smalltalk was the first object-oriented programming language, which was used to create the graphical user interface (see Xerox Star). ACTOR and Eiffel were also earlier OOP ...