Learning the Eiffel programming language takes a bit of effort in 2019. Not that it's overly complicated (although it is sophisticated), but because there's just barely any documentation for newbies out there. No-one blogs about it. The Eiffel mindshare is very small, and this has to do with historical facts. When Eiffel was "hot," the Web, as we know it, didn't exist. Then C++ gained ground, parasitizing on C-oidness. Sun Microsystems soon followed, with a massive marketing campaign. This is partly the fault of Eiffel vendors, who didn't see the open source movement coming (the same thing happened to Smalltalk and Common Lisp).
Today, if you care to learn Eiffel, you must hunt for books. Then once you get them, you find out that the language spec has been updated, and you have to go through the code, trying to update it by looking at the current
Eiffel classes documentation, Of course, Eiffel being Eiffel, this is totally doable, but not really easy sailing if you're a total beginner.
Today, if you care to learn Eiffel, you must hunt for books. Then once you get them, you find out that the language spec has been updated, and you have to go through the code, trying to update it by looking at the current Eiffel classes documentation, Of course, Eiffel being Eiffel, this is totally doable, but not really easy sailing if you're a total beginner. 
