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I thought I would like to try out Eiffel and see if it really does make programming cooler. So I download the IDE, and things start sucking pretty fast. (Maybe they haven't tested their system on Win2K? That would be pretty funny, given that they've made all sorts of announcements about how they are doing .NET stuff left and right with Microsoft. You'd think they'd have the interest in making things work on MS operating systems, then.)

• 2) There are buttons you can click on that don't do anything. They look like they clicked when you click on them and all, but then absolutely nothing happens. I'm clicking on the 'Melt' icon and... nothing happens. Not even an error message that says "Hey, you have to have a Project first." Nor anything which says "Done!" Nothing. No. Thing. Have they never heard of the concept of graying things out? This happens with other buttons and other menu entries, all over the frikkin' place.
• 1) I am looking through the examples\bench\tour demo Project. The class heir.e makes reference to a Result object. How the hell do I find out what that class is? Among the various things I tried, all with no success, was the Edit / Object / Find dialog. I entered the text Result and hit Find and... nothing happened. I didn't even get a message saying "Nothing found." Oh, and if the mouse cursor is over the text entry field, when you hit the Enter key to start the search, it turns into an hour glass wait cursor, and never changes back. You have to move the cursor and then it changes back. What. Ever.