<s>
SmartEiffel	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
Eiffel	B-Language
compiler	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
compiler	B-Language
translates	O
Eiffel	B-Language
code	O
either	O
to	O
C	B-Language
or	O
Java	B-Language
bytecode	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hence	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
write	O
programs	O
that	O
run	O
on	O
virtually	O
any	O
platform	O
for	O
which	O
an	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
compiler	B-Language
or	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
virtual	I-Language
machine	I-Language
exist	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SmartEiffel	B-Application
has	O
been	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
Lorraine	O
Laboratory	O
of	O
Research	O
in	O
Information	O
Technology	O
and	O
its	O
Applications	O
(	O
LORIA	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
institute	O
affiliated	O
to	O
the	O
French	O
National	O
Institute	O
for	O
Research	O
in	O
Computer	O
Science	O
and	O
Control	O
(	O
INRIA	O
)	O
,	O
on	O
the	O
campus	O
of	O
Nancy-Université	O
in	O
Lorraine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
compiler	B-Language
was	O
then	O
called	O
SmallEiffel	B-Application
,	O
in	O
reference	O
to	O
the	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1995	O
,	O
the	O
compiler	B-Language
was	O
able	O
to	O
compile	B-Language
itself	O
for	O
the	O
first	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1998	O
,	O
on	O
the	O
occasion	O
of	O
a	O
visit	O
to	O
LORIA	O
by	O
Richard	O
Stallman	O
,	O
the	O
project	O
became	O
part	O
of	O
the	B-Application
GNU	I-Application
Project	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2002	O
,	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
renamed	O
SmartEiffel	B-Application
and	O
reached	O
version	O
1.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2004	O
,	O
SmartEiffel	B-Application
reached	O
version	O
2.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2005	O
,	O
after	O
divergences	O
with	O
the	O
working	O
group	O
for	O
the	O
normalization	O
of	O
the	O
Eiffel	B-Language
language	O
,	O
the	O
SmartEiffel	B-Application
project	O
announced	O
that	O
they	O
would	O
not	O
implement	O
the	O
ECMA	O
TC39-TG4	O
norm	O
.	O
</s>
