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.
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