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From: dave@csis.dit.csiro.au (David Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: New Eiffel-like OOP language
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.063222.1304@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 16 Jun 91 06:32:22 GMT
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G'day!

I have seen postings in this group about a possible Amiga version of Eiffel
(which is a recent object-oriented language & very nice to use).

There is a new strongly typed object-oriented language being developed
at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.  This new
language is called Sather.  Sather is a variant of Eiffel, syntactically
very similar but simplified and optimized.  They claim that Sather has
performance 4 to 50 times that of Eiffel.

The good thing about Sather is that its in the public domain.  Full source
for a Sparc beta version is available from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu in directory
pub/sather.  Sather (like Eiffel) compiles to C and thus should be fairly
portable.  The run-time-system should be the most difficult part to port to
the Amiga.  The Sather compiler itself is written in Sather, thus source in C
(generated from Sather) is included.

Documentation (.ps) is also available from the ftp site.

I'm interested in porting but if somebody wants to take charge of any
serious attempt, do so.
I think we can give up hope of compiling anything serious with Lattice C,
I might try using GCC or compiling it on a Sun-3 and using the SOBJA program
(from the Amiga GCC port) which converts Sun-3 object code to Amiga object
code.

-- Dave Campbell
-- dave@csis.dit.csiro.au
-- 
dave campbell