As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH EIFFEL USER conference, to celebrate.
~ Bertrand Meyer (born: 1950 age: 59) 1992, creator of design by contract and the Eiffel language.

Proving a language does not have to be popular to be influential.