Sather is an object-oriented programming language. It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro. It supports garbage collection and generics by subtypes.

Originally, it was based on Eiffel, but it has diverged, and now includes several functional programming features. It is probably best to view it as an object-oriented language, with many ideas borrowed from Eiffel. Even the name is inspired by Eiffel; the Sather Tower is a recognizable landmark at Berkeley. Sather also takes inspiration from other programming languages and paradigms: iterators, design by contract, abstract classes, multiple inheritance, anonymous functions, operator overloading, contravariant type system. Some of these features are normally only found in functional programming languages.

The original Berkeley implementation is now maintained by many people, not all at Berkeley, and has been adopted by the Free Software Foundation. There are at least two other implementations: Sather-K from the University of Karlsruhe, and Sather-W from the University of Waikato.

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@LetThereBeLH it's just such an oversight by sather. You're forcing your goalie to always be good, no backup, can't wait for the injuries.
Shaunheiser (Shaun Heiser ) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:57:37 -0000
@LetThereBeLH it's just such an oversight by sather. You're forcing your goalie to always be good, no backup, can't wait for the injuries.
Allan Muir: Sather's fate, Kovalchuk's next team, more reader mail - Why Alexander Semin and Ilya Kovalchuk... http://bit.ly/6DtiMY
sibrk (SI Breaking News) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:10:13 -0000
Allan Muir: Sather's fate, Kovalchuk's next team, more reader mail - Why Alexander Semin and Ilya Kovalchuk... http://bit.ly/6DtiMY
@Sean_Leahy | There has to be a Sather contract in there somewhere.
eddiekane150 (Eddie) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:13:59 -0000
@Sean_Leahy | There has to be a Sather contract in there somewhere.
@lowkeyhockey Sather overpaid on too many free agents. It could be worse if the #Habs didn't take Gomez off his hands.
chisslerr (Rick ) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:03:57 -0000
@lowkeyhockey Sather overpaid on too many free agents. It could be worse if the #Habs didn't take Gomez off his hands.
@D_Wyatt13 Can the Rangers care that much about Sather that they don't want him fired? ;-> Ahead 2-1!
jetsgirl09 (Margaret ) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:32:36 -0000
@D_Wyatt13 Can the Rangers care that much about Sather that they don't want him fired? ;-> Ahead 2-1!
ann sather for brunch w. kristina. delicious.
joshterryaware (Josh Terry) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:19:12 -0000
ann sather for brunch w. kristina. delicious.

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