Talk:Eiffel (programming language): Difference between revisions

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These idiosyncratic blue fonts should ''really'' be removed. It doesn't make any difference what Eiffel's own documentation uses for formatting conventions: ''this'' is an article on Wikipedia, which has its own set of typographic (and other) style conventions. There would be a case for exact colors (well, as exact as web rendering can be) if this were on [[Color Forth]] or the like: i.e. something where colors are part of the actual program semantics. But that is not true of Eiffel. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 19:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

:Let me again ask you not to redefine Eiffel. The font conventions are part of the language rules. Eiffel is not just a programming language; it is a certain way of thinking about software and describing it. In particular, it is a language for publication of programs. I appreciate the desire for consistency, but faithfulness to the subject matter should always supersede other criteria.[[User:Bertrand Meyer|B-Meyer]] 21:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

:It is really a disservice to Wikipedia to waste people's time on such matters. If you want Wikipedia to be taken seriously by professionals, and have (as in this case) the designer of a technology expand considerable time on the corresponding article, you have to respect the community, and its rules which, in this case, have been carefully developed over a period of 20 years. Thanks in advance for letting us write the article in the best way possible, to everyone's benefit.[[User:Bertrand Meyer|B-Meyer]] 21:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)