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 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[email protected]>.

   Mailing list: sather[email protected].

   (1995-04-26)