I'm pretty sure that I read something recently saying that the Eiffel 
     which will be used in the .NET platform looses it's Design-By-Contract 
     and Multiple Inheritance capabilities.  I don't really see that as a 
     minor change.  Seems like a lot of hacking and slicing is occuring to 
     make languages fit the .NET platform and it's restrictions.  I'm 
     pretty sure that multiple inheritance is impossible in .NET as it just 
     plain doesn't support it.  I could be wrong.
     
     Mike


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Subject: [ruby-talk:7213] Re: Ruby in Ruby
Author:  ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp at smtplink
Date:    12/14/00 9:10 AM


     
"Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting" <mcbreenp / cadvision.com> wrote in message 
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>
> But is it still Smalltalk?
>
> I remember Bertrand Meyer saying something to the effect that in order
> to make Eiffel.NET work ISE had to make some minor changes to Eiffel, so 
> in effect Eiffel.NET is a dialect/variant of Eiffel.
>
     
ObjectArts (the guys behind Dolphin Smalltalk) have talked about suspending 
work on their own back end in favour of the .NET platform.  Being as Dolphin 
is solely a Windows product, this would let them concentrate on the other 
stuff.  Still Smalltalk though.  Mind you, aren't all commercial Smalltalks 
already dialects?
     
Giles