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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: [email protected].
     
        (1995-04-26)