A non-
proprietary
object-oriented programming
language that is distributed under the
GPL/
LGPL
license. Sather was originally based on
Eiffel, but now
incorporates ideas and approaches from several
languages. The language is most commonly
described as one that attempts to be as efficient as
C,
C++, or
FORTRAN, and
as elegant and safe as
Eiffel and supports higher
order functions as well as
Common Lisp, or
Smalltalk.
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