I developed a great interest in Eiffel after I read Bertrand Meyer&#x27;s book &quot;Object Oriented Software Construction&quot; (which I still think is one of the all time great books on object-oriented programming), but I never found anyone else that was using it and the IDE was way too expensive for me at the time. It just seemed to me like one of those technologies you&#x27;d probably get to have fun with on some niche project at a defense contractor, but that you&#x27;d probably never see out in the more general software development world.