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Eiffel

Eiffel is a surname most prominently associated with Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), a French civil engineer and businessman.

Gustave Eiffel's company is best known for constructing the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889 for the Exposition

Eiffel (programming language): a high-level object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer in the 1980s, intended

Universelle
in
Paris.
The
tower,
located
on
the
Champ
de
Mars,
is
a
wrought-iron
lattice
structure
that
rises
about
300
meters
tall
and
remained
the
tallest
man-made
structure
for
several
decades.
Its
design
involved
Maurice
Koechlin
and
Émile
Nouguier
(the
structural
engineers)
and
Stephen
Sauvestre
(the
architect)
as
collaborators;
Eiffel's
company
oversaw
assembly
and
project
management.
The
tower
has
three
levels
with
public
access
via
elevators
and
stairs,
and
serves
as
a
global
symbol
of
France
and
of
modern
engineering.
It
is
one
of
the
most-visited
paid
monuments
in
the
world.
to
support
reliable
software
engineering.
It
emphasizes
software
correctness
through
the
concept
of
Design
by
Contract,
and
has
influenced
subsequent
language
design.