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 (computer science) and Generic programming by subtypes.

It is probably best to see it as an languages.

The original Berkeley implementation is now maintained by many people, not all at Berkeley, and has been adopted by the .

Sather is implemented as a compiler to C programming language, i.e., the compiler does not output object file or Machine language code, but takes Sather source code and generates C source code as an intermediate language. Optimizing is by the C compiler, Sather code often performs better than the corresponding C plus plus code, and the generated C code can always be optimized by hand.

Sather can be used under either the GNU GPL or LGPL.

= Hello World =

class HELLO_WORLD is main is #OUT+ Hello World ; end; end;

=External link=

*[http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~sather/ Sather homepage]