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I think the sentence fragment that reads "which emphasizes the production of robust software" is questionable. It would be better (more accurate/NPV) to change this to something along the lines of "emphasises the production of software which is provable correct to a formal specification". Esp. given the Eiffel tendency to fail hard on contract breaches at the expense of absolute robustness.
 
== Thrown away Principles? ==
 
What exactly are these 'thrown away' principles?
 
This standard is not accepted by the SmartEiffel team, which has decided to create its own version of the language, because they think the ECMA standard throws away important principles of the original language. Eiffel Software and Gobo have committed to implementing the standard. Object Tools has not to date expressed a position.