Sather

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Sather
       
           /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
          {workstation}s.
       
          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: .
       
          Mailing list: sather-request@icsi.berkeley.edu.
       
          (1995-04-26)