Re: anyone home?

[Norbert Nemec]

Hey you two, and any others out there!

yes, there are people using Sather, and at least one of them (me) is 
still following the newsgroup - although I haven't had time to start 
threads lately.

The mlist is mirrored to the newsgroup (if you can read this on 
comp.lang.sather, that means the link is working at the moment)
Other way around is broken, though - posting to the list and 
reading the newsgroup therefore is the only way to get everything :-(

This list is for newbies as well as for developers - we are happy about 
anyone interested in Sather at all :-)

For a start, take a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/sather - there 
you should find a good tutorial as well as much other information.

Unfortunately, the whole project looks like a mess to the outside at 
the moment: We are still in the middle of a complete redesign of the 
library. The new code is still too buggy for beginners to use - 
although it is quite worth to look at once you have an idea about 
Sather in general.

The old code, though was a mess to begin with (that's part of the 
reason for the redesign) It does work, but nobody really took much care 
about cleaning it. Especially the compiler is deadly buggy, but the 
code is horror to debug...

Anyhow: the code works well at least the first steps, and once you have 
done those, you are likely to stay hooked... :-)

Ciao,
Nobbi

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:08:48PM -0700, Quinn Dunkan wrote:
> Is anyone around?  I'm new to sather, and it mostly seems pretty
> straightforward, but I have some questions that are not addressed by the FAQ.
> comp.lang.sather is empty (although I found some posts on deja).  Is
> info-sather gatewayed to the newsgroup?  I prefer writing to a newsgroup, but
> if nobody reads it, then the mlist is the way to go :)  The mlist archives
> from the gnu site seem to be down.  The last update was sometime last year...
> 
> So can I ask newbie-questions here?  Or is this a compiler-developer list?
> heeeelllllpppp :)
> 
> sather seems nice, but also rather sleepy...

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:54:08PM -0400, Kipton M Barros wrote:
> Hi,  I stumbled across Sather just recently.  It looks pretty neat.  Are
> people still using this language?
> 
> I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.  One thing that would
> probably help beginners like me would be some sample code.  For example,
> is anyone doing any graphics programming with Sather?  (OpenGL, perhaps?). 

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