I just saw an ad in Gmail for the Eiffel programming language. It feels kind of weird that a programming language would need to advertise.<p>Has anybody ever used it? What are the reasons for its lack of success?
Took too long to get free, cross-platform implementations out there - reducing it to yet another proprietary programming language and/or some pseudocode for learning from Meyer's book (which is good, if a bit opinionated).<p>Then SmallEiffel came out, and it actually got used for a few pet projects across the internet, but as far as I can see, it changed its name to "SmartEiffel" and died.<p>Also: Ada. (and, well, if <i>that</i> is stealing your thunder…)