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An Invitation to Eiffel

Welcome to the on-line introduction to the Eiffel method and language. This material was derived from chapter 1, An Invitation to Eiffel, of the book Eiffel: The Language , the official reference on Eiffel, published by Prentice Hall and available from bookstores as well as from ISE and its distributors.

This is the first time an extensive Eiffel introduction has been made available on line and we hope you will find it useful.

Be sure to look at the other on-line documents, in particular to the indispensable complement to this overview of the language and method: the introduction to EiffelBench, ISE's acclaimed graphical development environment for Eiffel. Check also for other manuals frequently being added, and for information about books and other documentation on Eiffel and related topics.

This is a copyrighted document. You may not redistribute the material or store it permanently without ISE's permission.

Please click HERE to browse the on-line Invitation to Eiffel starting with the beginning of the document, or THERE to start from the table of contents.

Credits

All the material in An Invitation to Eiffel is copyright Bertrand Meyer/ISE, 1985-1999. These on-line manual pages were created thanks to the fm2html filter, which converts FrameMaker documents to HTML. The filter is copyright Norwegian Telecom Research and was written by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner (jons@nta.no).