<s>
Visual	B-Application
Eiffel	I-Application
is	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
Eiffel	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
developed	O
and	O
distributed	O
by	O
Object	O
Tools	O
GmbH	O
,	O
a	O
German	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visual	B-Application
Eiffel	I-Application
provides	O
an	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
running	O
on	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
major	O
design	O
goal	O
is	O
to	O
provide	O
an	O
environment	O
that	O
,	O
unlike	O
EiffelStudio	B-Application
,	O
does	O
not	O
use	O
an	O
original	O
user	O
interface	O
paradigm	O
but	O
instead	O
is	O
comfortable	O
to	O
programmers	O
familiar	O
with	O
such	O
tools	O
as	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
and	O
Borland	O
's	O
Delphi	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visual	B-Application
Eiffel	I-Application
includes	O
a	O
"	O
Display	O
Machine	O
"	O
for	O
developing	O
GUI	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
many	O
other	O
Eiffel	B-Language
compilers	O
generate	O
C	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
bytecode	O
or	O
bytecode	O
for	O
.NET	B-Application
Framework	I-Application
,	O
the	O
Visual	B-Application
Eiffel	I-Application
compiler	O
generates	O
native	O
X86	B-Operating_System
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
compiler	O
(	O
not	O
the	O
graphical	O
environment	O
)	O
is	O
,	O
besides	O
Windows	O
,	O
also	O
available	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
