But that's doesn't mean the rest of us are off the hook. Every Eiffel user should become an advocate of Eiffel. We need to get the word out. Just like my coworker told me. Use Eiffel at work .
Nothing legitimizes a language like corporate backing and corporate dollars.
Write Open Source applications in Eiffel . This would force people to get an Eiffel compiler just to build the applications. Write libraries . Especially graphical libraries. A little bit of eye candy goes a long way.