Academic vs. Commercial Languages (Score 1, Interesting)

Almost all commercially succesful langauges were invented outside academia and driven by real-world needs: C/C++ by AT&T, Java by Sun, C# & VB by Microsoft, Delphi by Borland (and it looks quite different from its Pascal predecessor), COBOL by a group of corportations (notably IBM, Honywell, and RCA) and the DOD, FORTRAN by IBM, JavaScript by Netscape, PERL by Larry Wall, Python by Guido van Rossum, and SmallTalk by Xerox PARC.

Most of the computer languages that were invented in academia (Lisp/Scheme, ML, APL, Haskell) stayed there and never took off (at least in their original form) as commercial mainstream languages.

Eiffel was invented by Bertrand Meyer mainly for academia to teach the principles of OO illustrated in his book OOSC (Object Oriented Software Construction), and it wasn't driven by commercial needs. Therefore I doubt it will ever take off as a mainstream commercial language.