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 classes, 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 SysVR3.2, NeXT, Linux.
See also dpSather, pSather, Sather-K.
ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/sather.
E-mail: <sather-admin@icsi.berkeley.edu>.
Mailing list: sather-request@icsi.berkeley.edu.
(1995-04-26)
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