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“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.”

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Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer

Bertrand Meyer is a renowned computer scientist and author, known for his contributions to the field of software engineering. Born on November 21, 1950, he is the creator of the Eiffel programming language and has conducted extensive research in software design, programming languages, and system architecture. more

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