http://www.eiffelroom.com/tag/process Comments for "process" en http://www.eiffelroom.com/blog/colin_adams/learning_from_the_w3c_process#comment-103 <p>In my opinion we are much better now with a standard than without a standard. It fixed a lot of the shortcomings you could find in ETL2 and clarified some gray areas. And ETL2 was 10 years old and missed important stuff such as Agent, Precursor and other things. It is going to take some time to fully implement it, but we will succeed at the end.</p> <p>Since I do not know the W3C process, I cannot say much, but I believe the Eiffel community of people interested in the precise specification is not strong enough to follow the exact same model.</p> <p>Regarding implemented vs. standardized, it was our goal to do that, but at the end we chose to innovate in the following areas even though there were no implementation: <ul> <li> Eradicating call on Void target.</li> <li> Eradicating CAT calls.</li> <li> New inheritance model.</li> </ul> </p> <p>They seemed important enough to give Eiffel the competitive advantage it should have to be ahead of other languages that are now taking more and more stuff from Eiffel.</p> Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:00 -0800 manus_eiffel comment 103 at http://www.eiffelroom.com