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sather

sather

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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)