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The NICE Bylaws
Article 2: Purposes
- 2.1 Preamble
- 2.2 Specific objectives
- Section 2.1 Preamble
- The aim of NICE is to promote the industrial approach to the reliable
construction of computer software by furthering the development of
an industry of high quality reusable software components, based on
the Eiffel object-oriented method, language, libraries and
environment.
- Section 2.2 Specific objectives
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- NICE
shall have the following specific objectives to fulfill the general
goals of section .
- To
educate the computer profession to the benefits of the
object-oriented approach to software development and modern
methods of software engineering.
- To
standardize the Eiffel language and control its
evolution.
- To
standardize the interface of the basic Eiffel libraries and control
its evolution.
- To
promote the production of tools for effective software development
in Eiffel.
- To
foster educational, scientific and technical communication between
NICE's members, and other members of the software engineering
community, in the interest of software productivity.
- To
encourage the definition and implementation of standards to
facilitate the task of Eiffel software developers.
- To
support the production and distribution of reusable Eiffel
components from contributors worldwide.
- To
disseminate the worldwide use of the Eiffel principles, method,
language, libraries and tools.
- To
sponsor public meetings of Eiffel users and other interested
parties.
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