Is sather still alive?

I'm looking for information about sather. All the webpages I find at
universities are from 1996.
GNU sather saw a stable release (1.2.2) in 2005, but the unstable branch
saw it last release in 2001.
Is sather still alive?

Philipp

Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:

> I'm looking for information about sather. All the webpages I find at
> universities are from 1996.
> GNU sather saw a stable release (1.2.2) in 2005, but the unstable branch
> saw it last release in 2001.
> Is sather still alive?
I'm afraid the anwer is IMHO no. No maintenance, no new releas nothing
in at least 2 years. That's clear sign of "deadness" to me ;-(

Well on can just speculate about ther reasons. so here are mine.
- Languages with safety "belts" seem not to be in 'really'. Another
example is of course Eiffel but that's another league....
- Java takes a lot of the attention dedicated to statically typed OO
languages.
- C++ is quite hanging around and intensivly used....
- It seems the bound and bondage languages seem to loose ground. See
the exceptional growth in the so called scripting language area.
- language with much more functionality and support are winning
grounds. PHP is one of the standard languages for "terrible" new web
offers ;-), the libraries for Perl are legion, and the Java libraries
just deserve on thing "remarkable" large....

- And one of the reasons OSS fanatics deny but it's as if you deny
that after day comes the night. Nobody earns money with Sather, but a
lot of firms do earn money with Java, PHP, even 'exotics' like
Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Erlang etc.

Regards
Friedrich



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