DISCUSSION GROUPS

www.tunes.org/list/ultra/9903/msg00004.html

A discussion group about Design by Contract. This site contains links to sites describing Design by Contract, as well as opinions about the positive and negative aspects of Design by Contract.

calvo.teleco.ulpgc.es/lg/issue34/issue34.txt

A discussion group on Design by Contract, Eiffel, Java, and related topics. It contains many answers to questions regarding various applications of the topics.

catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.20.html

A forum on risks to the public in computers and related systems. Contains articles about different events involving computer problems or failures, such as an article about how a computer collapse wiped out British social security records.

sather.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/ML/msg00241.html

A discussion group for the computer language Sather

smalleiffel.loria.fr/Mailing-list/msg00517.html

A discussion group which talks about SmallEiffel. The main problem discussed is that if an application should be portable, then it should not contain any platform specific code (and not at all make any kind of file-name or directory name mangling).

smalleiffel.loria.fr/Mailing-list/msg00725.html

A discussion group which talks about SmallEiffel. It focuses on the fact that rescue clauses behave differently under Windows and Linux.

smalleiffel.loria.fr/Mailing-list/msg00853.html

A discussion group which talks about SmallEiffel. The sender is requesting help with binary file routines.

talkitover.com/Eiffel/users/oldlist/

The site of an ISE Eiffel discussion group.This set of pages is a service of ISE to its user community. It reproduces threads of messages posted to the ISE Eiffel user list. This site also contains subscription information.

www.aaronsrod.com/freemoney/fm-list-archives/msg00111.html

A discussion group about abstraction, OO and user customization

www.artima.com/flexiblejava/fjf/exceptions/messages/16.html

A discussion group about Java entitled "Designing with Exceptions". It discusses when exceptions should be used as a replacement for normal flow of control, and other topics.

www.artima.com/flexiblejava/fjf/interfaces/messages/15.html

A discussion group about Java entitled "Designing with Interfaces" and about Design by Contract in Java. It mainly discusses the lack of Design by Contract in Java.

www.egroups.com/list/forum-discuss/196.html

The site which the "forum-discuss" mailing list, an unmoderated public list for discussion about Eiffel and about the Eiffel Forum.

www.elj.com/eiffel/getting-started/

A discussion group about getting started with Eiifel. It discusses online tutorials and online specifications on Eiffel.

www.freemoney.org/fm-list-archives/msg00114.html

A discussion group which talks about abstraction, OO and user customization

www.kfa-juelich.de/zam/cxx/mpp/MailArch/msg00016.html

A discussion group about C++MPP - going from sequential to parallel through polymorphism. The first topic starts: "Should the matrix class understand eigen systems? I don't think that it should. Have a separate class that is called eigensystem, that takes a matrix as an input. Matrix inversion is similar. Then you can have a sequential eigen system, parallel eigensytem all inheriting from the abstract base class."

www.learning-org.com/98.08/0176.html

A discussion group on LO and whether it works. It deals with questions such as: If you are negotiating a contract for a project either internally or externally, how do you design that contract to make learning a core value of the contract? If we are serious about learning, how do we structure it into our proposals for projects?

www.modacom.co.kr/~gmkim/linux/lg/issue34/issue34.txt

A discussion group about Linuxgazette article 34, which deals with Design by Contract

www.ooc.com/ob/1998/Oct/msg00017.html

A discussion group about casting vars and pointers

www.phoaks.com/cgi-bin/term-search?NEWSGROUP=;DISPLAY_TYPE=html_lofi

A list of discussion groups dealing with Design by Contract, Eiffel, Java, and related topics

www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/cpp/cjp24434.html

A discussion group about the readonly variable attribute. It discusses the fact that Java (like C and C++) requires brackets to be used when calling a function - even if it takes no parameters, as well as other topics relating to Java.

www.ucl.ac.uk/~zccap74/language/eiffel.htm

A newsgroup discussing the aims and practice of the language/implementation of Eiffel. For example, one thing said about Eiffel is that it is an advanced object-oriented programming language that emphasizes the design and construction of high-quality and reusable software.

www2.tunes.org/list/tunes/9806/msg00007.html

A discussion group which provides an explanation of tunes

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