Comment by haxeny1

I was one of those folks who actually bought the personal license. Over years, SmallEiffel came along and improved the ecosystem. Of course, now Eiffel has a community/enterprise model. In any event, I do think that they were pricing them out of the market. Defense contractors, seem to like ada more. The feature that I miss from Eiffel is the Expanded (allocated on stack feature). Even haskell has some #untyped to deal with boxing primitives. I thought that Expanded was a stroke of genius: bringing specification to implementation without the middleman(aka heap).