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Sather
<language> /Say-ther/ (Named after the Sather Tower at {UCB},
as opposed to the Eiffel Tower).
An interactive {object-oriented} language designed by Steve
M. Omohundro at {ICSI} in 1991. Sather has simple {syntax},
similar to {Eiffel}, but it is non-proprietary and faster.
Sather 0.2 was nearly a subset of Eiffel 2.0, but Sather 1.0
adds many distinctive features: parameterised {class}es,
{multiple inheritance}, statically-checked {strong typing},
{garbage collection}. The compiler generates {C} as an
{intermediate language}. There are versions for most
{workstations}.
Sather attempts to retain much of {Eiffel}'s theoretical
cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of
{C++}. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code
which is easily integrated with existing code.
A variety of development tools including a debugger and
{browser} based on {gdb} and a {GNU Emacs} development
environment have also been written. There is also a {class
library} with several hundred classes that implement a variety
of basic data structures and numerical, geometric,
connectionist, statistical, and graphical abstractions. The
authors would like to encourage contributions to the library
and hope to build a large collection of efficient,
well-written, well-tested classes in a variety of areas of
computer science.
Sather runs on {Sun-4}, {HP9000}/300, {Decstation} 5000,
{MIPS}, {Sony News} 3000, {Sequent}/{Dynix}, {SCO} {SysV}R3.2,
{NeXT}, {Linux}.
See also {dpSather}, {pSather}, {Sather-K}.
(ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/sather).
E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Mailing list: [email protected].
(1995-04-26)