C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.