Designing a programming language is an difficult task. During my time in academia, I had the great pleasure to meet some language designers. Listening to their stories is highly educating. Things that look simple or arbitrary at first become deep insights into the way humans understand problems and model solutions. There is nothing trivial in deciding names of keywords or punctuation.

New Eiffel library for XMPP (aka Jabber, Google Talk, ...)

This was initially built as an example for EiffelNet and made it available as it is for now.

I might try to complete it later, and add other examples/tools. Feel free to use/comment/contribute, the project is currently hosted on at github.

I just made available a cluster with a pseudo-random generator that wraps the reference C implementation of Mersenne Twister. Feel free to modify and extend as the wrapping is only here for integers.

It is hosted on Origo!