[dba-Tech] Next Learn

I'm shocked that you haven't heard of it. Of course, I understand it. Every
second I spend in Ruby is a second not spent in SQL 2008 etc.

Eiffel is and has been one of the leading edge O-O languages for a decade or
two. There is a .NET version. It is also favoured by various
defence-department establishments. It's got a lot of features yet to be
emulated in other implementations. See http://www.eiffel.com/

On 11/21/07, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote:
>
> The current version of SQL (2005).
>
> Eiffel??
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:26 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Next Learn
>
> I want to take a poll from this group. The question is, What do you think
> you need to learn next? I offer a few possible answers but they are not
> exhaustive.
>
> a) the next version of SQL (2008 Katmai)
> b) the next version of Visual Studio .NET
> c) Ruby and Ruby on Rails
> d) Java's latest
> e) PHP
> f) Eiffel
> g) some alternative to MS-SQL (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, PostGres, Advantage,
> Cache, etc.)
> h) XML (which obviously applies to several of the aforementioned but is
> narrower in scope)
> i) something I didn't list above -- if so, please say What.
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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