Re: Is Sather dead?
Keith Hopper <[email protected]>
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In article <[email protected]>, Lars Hupfeldt Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I believe that work continues at University of Waikato (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/sather/). > The current release 1.3 compiler is really too slow for any real work. I have no idea how work is currently progressing at Waikato. > A lot of people think that Sather is one of the best languages designed so far, so lets hope that it has a future. > Regards > Lars Hupfeldt. Contrary to the above, work has had to stop here as we no longer have man-hours to put into it. I too am very disappointed - but that's how life goes sometimes. I don't honestly see anything more being done here in any serious way unless a miracle happens. I have been advised to cut my own work drastically on medical grounds - one of the reasons why I put together the tar balls which were so kindly put onto the GNU CVS site savannah. I still think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Now that a lot of the terrible uncertainty about "which way to go" for text/strings has settled, the 'slowing down' complained of can probably be recouped by redesigning/re-building all of the string stuff and a modest portion of the cultural stuff in the Required Library to use UTF-8 (and UTF-16) making all other encodings in this form. It is not a trivial exercise - but does need to be done. If this is my swan song in the Sather world - so be it. I hope that my health improves and lets me do some more some time! Keith Hopper -- City Desk Waikato University [PGP key available if desired]