Windows Eiffel Library
Interactive Software Engineering, Inc.
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The new Windows Eiffel Library (WEL), which has been designed to
make Windows programming easier, more reliable, more convenient,
and more powerful.

The most obvious definition of WEL is that it is an encapsulation of 
Windows primitives, making it possible for users of Graphical Eiffel 
for Windows to have direct access to the Windows graphical API. 

But this is only part of the truth. WEL provides considerable benefits 
of its own: the ability to work in a much simpler, move convenient and 
safer way than if you were using the Windows primitives directly, for
example from C. 

This advantage comes from the abstraction facilities of Eiffel, which 
make it possible to encapsulate many low-level details so that 
developers can concentrate on the functionality, not implementation 
requirements. 

So even for specific and OS-dependent tasks such as using a particular 
graphical API, the benefits of the Eiffel method and of reusable Eiffel 
components will show up quickly.

WEL information sources
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``An overview of WEL, the Windows Eiffel Library''
http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/wel/index.html

WEL Examples (Eiffel text and executable)
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/eiffel/wel_ex2.zip

EiffelWorld, Summer/Fall 1995
``A Windows Eiffel Library: How to access MS-Windows APIs''
