Sather Dead
Sather
KindProgramming language
Appeared1991
StatusDead
CreatorICSI Berkeley
FamilyIndependent
Sourcewww.gnu.org ↗
Berkeley's Eiffel-for-the-people — iterators and contracts without the license fee; faded when Java absorbed the OO mainstream.
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ICSI's Sather (1990) — a Clean-derived Eiffel sibling — was designed to be 'Eiffel done right': safe OO with iterator types, parametric classes, and contravariant typing.\n\nIt was a research language that predated Java's generics work; mostly historical but technically interesting.