1996-03-07 12:55:59 +00:00
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Sather is an object oriented language which aims to be simple,
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efficient, safe, and non-proprietary. It aims to meet the needs of
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modern research groups and to foster the development of a large,
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freely available, high-quality library of efficient well-written
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classes for a wide variety of computational tasks. It was originally
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based on Eiffel but now incorporates ideas and approaches from several
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languages. One way of placing it in the "space of languages" is to say
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that it attempts to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran, as elegant
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and safe as Eiffel or CLU, and to support higher-order functions as
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well as Common Lisp, Scheme, or Smalltalk.
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Sather has garbage collection, statically-checked strong typing,
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multiple inheritance, separate implementation and type inheritance,
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parameterized classes, dynamic dispatch, iteration abstraction,
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higher-order routines and iters, exception handling, assertions,
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preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. Sather code can
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be compiled into C code and can efficiently link with C object files.
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2000-02-13 19:55:08 +00:00
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WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/sather/
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