-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am pleased to announce GNU Sather 1.2.2, available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sather/sather-1.2.2.tar.bz2
The project home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/sather/ The md5 digest is: 0a8bb5725badc30247202759512f0092 sather-1.2.2.tar.bz2 The sha1 digest is: 64e22d955a95c3ccb3beaaa6ec862333313ad278 sather-1.2.2.tar.bz2 What is GNU Sather ================== GNU Sather is an object-oriented programming language designed to be simple, efficient and safe. It aims to be appropriate for use in teaching, research, and industry. It was originally based on Eiffel but now incorporates ideas and approaches from several languages. One way of placing it in the "space of languages" is to say that it attempts to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran, as elegant and safe as Eiffel or CLU, and to support higher-order functions as well as Common Lisp or Scheme. So GNU Sather is an object-oriented language with garbage collection, statically-checked strong typing, multiple inheritance, separate implementations and type inheritance, parameterized classes, dynamic dispatch, iteration abstraction, higher-order routines and iterators, exception handling, assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. Code can be compiled into C code and can link with C object files. What's New ========== This release fixes some bugs that make the project impossible to compile GNU Sather on gcc 3.x (Tested on GNU/Linux). Current Development State ========================= GNU Sather was "almost production ready" some years ago, but it has been orphaned for some years, now with a new maintainer it'll get from "almost" to complete as soon as we can do it. Future Directions ================= The specification of the language is in a process of cleanup and reunification with some concepts form other Sather dialect called Sather-K. Also we are going to incorporate some new concepts to the language, starting with modules and packages. In the future we will be porting the compiler to a more modular architecture that is planned to be a gcc direct compiler front end, and also to have a interactive interpreter to use in development. Also it is planned a complete revision of GNU Emacs tools for sather to make them work with current GNU emacs (I need help with this task). Thanks, Abelardo Gutierrez -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsAiReItcgHMP9mcRAiD+AJ4zY/PQOJF1pr8duYPNHUeZCJqKxwCgjIhJ skSy7lRQKnhvGN16QuCP10A= =P0Pm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
