Designed at the University of California at Berkeley, Sather is an object-oriented programming language.
The language originated around 1990, after being developed by a team led by Omohundro. It was strongly influenced by Eiffel, which inspired its being named for a bell tower on the Berkeley campus. Sather was also influenced by CLU, Common Lisp, and Scheme.
The original implementation, released in 1995, is no longer maintained. It has been adopted by the Free Software Foundation, and is now known as GNU Sather, and is dual licensed under the General Public License (GPL) and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). However, as of this writing, the last stable GNU version was released in 2007.
Other implementations include Sather-K (University of Karlsruhe), Sather-W (University of Waikato), ICSI Sather and pSather.
The focus of this category is on the programming language known as Sather. The language or any of its implementations or compilers are appropriate for this category, along with any editors or tools designed to facilitate programming in Sather. User groups, forums, tutorials, or guides may also be listed here.
Recommended Resources
From the Electronic Developer Magazine for OS/2, an overview of the programming language, Sather, is put forward, including its origins in Eiffel, as well as its design goals, development and implementations, features, and support information. Links to other online resources and documentation regarding the language are included, as well as to download pages for Sather-K from both SourceForge and Halle University.
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Sather
Free Software Foundation: GNU Sather
Hosted by the Free Software Foundation, Sather is an object-oriented programming language based on Eiffel, and GNU Sather is an open-source implementation of the language files, available under a Lesser General Public License. An overview of the language is presented, along with its documentation, download links, and information about making contributions to the project or its paid support services. Project leaders are acknowledged, and links to other resources are included.
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Sather
Sather is an object-oriented programming language developed at the University of California, Berkeley, but now available under a GLP/LGPL license. GNU Sather is a compiler, class library, specification, and programming manual for Sather, as well as a browser for displaying sources and directing graphs of a program's class inheritances. Sather may be downloaded from the GNU site, and documentation is available in HTML and PS format.
https://www.gnu.org/software/sather/
Object-Oriented Language: Sather
Offering an overview of the Sather programming language, including several of its implementations, and an emphasis on its object-oriented features, the site features tutorials, articles and other references and publications, utilities, tools, and links to other online resources. The features, history, performance, and future of Sather are discussed, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, and other information.
http://www.objenv.com/cetus/oo_sather.html
Hosted by UC Berkeley, the site features the object-oriented programming language, based in Eiffel, that was designed at Berkeley, and now available under a GPL/LGPL license. An overview of there language is put forth, including its features, specifications, manual, and other tutorials and publications related to the language. Links to sites where the language files and related software may be downloaded are included.
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~sather/
The online tutorial assumes the student has knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming. The author makes a comparison between Sather and Eiffel as well as C++, as well as installation instructions, a "Hello World" programming example, and code training in iteration, classes, IO, classes, operators, procedures as data, exceptions, programming by contract, GUI, and interfacing with other languages, like C and Fortran.
http://www.shido.info/sather/index_e.html
