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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv From: Bob Hathaway <rjh@geodesic.com> Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.Object FAQ Version 1.0.6 (9-15) Part 7/9 Supersedes: <object-faq/part7_777166834@rtfm.mit.edu> Followup-To: comp.object Date: 17 Sep 1994 12:04:33 GMT Organization: Geodesic Systems Lines: 1496 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 31 Oct 1994 12:03:01 GMT Message-ID: <object-faq/part7_779803381@rtfm.mit.edu> References: <object-faq/part6_779803381@rtfm.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bloom-picayune.mit.edu Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List and Available Systems For Object-Oriented Technology X-Last-Updated: 1994/09/15 Originator: faqserv@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.object:12656 comp.answers:7315 news.answers:25855 Archive-name: object-faq/part7 Last-Modified: 9/15/94 Version: 1.0.6 ObjectModeler ------------- *Rumbaugh, Coad/Yourdon, Jacobson and Booch notation *multiple, concurrent user *generates SQL, C++, Smalltalk templates *Macintosh, Unix ($1,495¡5,995) Iconix Software Engineering 2800 28th St., Suite 320 Santa Monica, CA 90405 (310) 458-0092 ObjecTool (was OOA/OODTool), Together/C++(new) ----------------------------------------------- *Coad/Yourdon, Object-oriented analysis. ObjectTool (Startup tool) *Windows, OS/2, HP/Sun Unix. *Together/C++ (Windows only) Code/Design integration. Object International, Inc. 8140 N. MoPac Expwy Austin, Tx 78759-6535 800-926-9306 (512) 795-0202 (512) 795-0332 (fax) Objectory --------- *Jacobson notation. *Generates C++, CMM support. *Windows, Unix, 4 configurations, $5000.00 - $10000.00 (USD) Objective Systems SF AB Torshamnsgatan 39, Mail Box 1128, S-164 ss Kista Sweden support@os.se ObjectTeam (also Teamwork) -------------------------- *Shlaer/Mellor, Rumbaugh (a "special edition" of Paradigm Plus) *SQL, ADA, Smalltalk, C, and C++ generation *VAX/VMS, Unix, OS/2, PC-DOS Rumbaugh: PC($4000)/Unix($8000), *SM: Unix (1 at a time) *Demo Tutorial, Eval copies. ATM example + others. Cadre Technologies, Inc 222 Richmond St., Providence, RI (401) 351-5950 (401) 455-6800 (fax) OEW (Object Engineering Workbench) ---------------------------------- *Martin/Odell object diagrams *generates C++ (templates unless supplemented with C coded methods) *reverse engineers C++ *Sun OS, PC Windows 3.x ($99-$2190) Innovative Software GmbH Niddastr. 66-68 6000 Frankfurt/M 1 Germany +49 60 236 929 +49 69 236930 (fax) OMW (Object Management Workbench) --------------------------------- *draws and executes from Martin/Odell diagrams *produces fully executable ANSI C environment *UI construction facilities, "object engine" for managing objects *AI "rule engine" for managing rules *interfaces with multiple databases *Unix; generated code runs on any ANSI C environment ($5,000-25,000) IntelliCorp 1975 El Camino Real West Mountain View, CA 94025 (415) 965-5500 (415) 965-5647 (fax) OMTool (see also StP/OMT) -------------------------- *OMTool(tm) version 2.0 (Object Modeling Tool, Rumbaugh) PC-based graphical tool for OO analysis and design. graphical prep and editing of object models for systems, programs, databases using the OMT. *8MB mem/math coproc(16MB without), Windows 3.1, Mouse, Hard Disk with 4 MB of available disk space, 386 CPU, Video Graphics Adapter. *Price: $995.00 US. Martin Marietta Advanced Concepts Center 640 Freedom Business Center King of Prussia, PA 19406 +1 (610) 992-6200, +1 800 438-7246, +1 (610) 992-6299 (FAX) OSMOSYS ------- *OOA and OOD for OSMOSYS Winter Partners London Office: Zurich Office: West Wing, The Hop Exchange 24a Southwark Street Florastrasse 44 London SE1 1TY CH-8008 Zurich England Switzerland Tel. +44-(0)71-357-7292 Tel. +41-(0)1-386-95 11 Fax. +44-(0)71-357-6650 Fax. +41-(0)1-386-95 00 Paradigm Plus ------------- *CASE toolset supporting Booch(new), Coad/Yourdon, EVB, and others. *configurable meta-CASE tool *Rev eng code. Gen code templates. Incr code gen next release, year end. *Windows: Fixed/1 machine, $3995, maint $599. Floating/net $4995, maint $750. *Unix: $7770, $1155 maint. Multiple discounts. *Eval, Demo, 30 day eval copy. Protosoft 17629 El Camino Real 202 Houston TX 77058 713 480 3233 Fax 713 480 6606 Prosa/om -------- *Coad/Yourdon notation *Generates C++, SQL *Windows, OS/2, Motif Prosa Software Kirkkokato 5 B SF-90100 Oulu, FInland +358 (81) 376-128 +358 (81) 371-754 Ptech ----- *Martin/Odell notation *modifiable meta-model *supports Martin/Odell notation, "data model is the database", C++ and Ontos or Objectivity code generation (fully executable code), formal foundation *Unix, ($5,000-25,000) Ptech, Inc. 200 Friberg Parkway Westborough, MA 01581 USA (508) 366-9166 Rational Rose ------------- *Booch notation OOA/D *generates C++ *Unix, AIX ($749-5,249) *(PC version formerly sold by Palladio Software) Rational 3320 Scott Blvd. Santa Clara, Ca. 95054 (408) 496-3700 Also: *C++ Booch Components 1-800-767-3237 ext. 23 S-CASE ------ *Booch-93 notation *generates C++ headers and stubs *project management aids, multi-user *Windows, OSF/Motif, Open Look, Macintosh ($249-995) MultiQuest Corp 1699 E. Woodfield Rd Suite A-1 Schaumburg, IL 60173 (708) 240-5555, (708) 240-5556 (fax) Select OMT ---------- *Rumbaugh notation *generates C++ *Windows ($695) Select Software Tools, Ltd 1526 Brookhollow Dr. Santa Ana, CA 92705 (714) 957-6633; (714) 957-6219 SES/Objectbench --------------- *Shlaer/Mellor notation, supports GUI and database links editors, browsers, test utilities, and statistical analysis for simulation development. Emphasizes importance of model animation to functionally verify the analysis. *generates C++ *Macintosh, MS-DOS, UNIX ($4,900 to $24,300) Software & Engineering Software (SES) 4301 Westbank Dr., Bldg A, Austin, TX 78746 (512) 328-5544, (512) 327-6646 (fax) Stood ----- *HOOD (version 3.1) notation, supports Ada, C, C++ *Unix, RISC, X windows Techniques Nouvells d'Informatique Technopole Brest-Iroise ZI du Vernis, Case postale 1 29608 Brest Cedex, France +33 9 8052744, +33 9 849-4533 (fax) StP/OMT - Software through Pictures ----------------------------------- *Member of StP family of integrated multi-user software development tools. Developed jointly by MM ACC and IDE. Open architecture, object- and system- level designs, reuses existing class structures to build applications. Stand-alone or part of OMT Success Packages which combines training, consulting, mentoring, and maintenance in addition to software. Shared repository, version control and locking, code and document generation. *StP/OMT runs on; AIX, DECstation, RS/6000, Sun OS, SPARCstation, HP 700/800, and Sun Solaris. *Price: $12,000.00 US Interactive Development Environments. 595 Market Street, 10th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 543-0900, +1 800 888-4331 System Architect ---------------- *Booch, Coad/Yourdon, Shlaer-Mellor. *design portion specific to Smalltalk, Ada, Object Pascal, and C++ *dialogues and menu management (Windows, C, C++), DB views (SQL, C++), other (C++) *Windows ($1395, single User), OS/2($1795, base). Popkin Software 11 Park Place New York, NY 10007 (212) 571-3434 (212) 571-2426 (fax) Toolbuilder ----------- *many notation (IE, HOOD, SSADM, Shlaer-Mellor) *configurable meta-CASE tool *executable code generation of C, C++, Cobol, ADA (via enhanced design-level action diagrams) and Motif and Open Look *interfaces to Sybase, Oracle, Informix *Sun Sparc, Apollo, HP 9000, DECstation, RS6000 ($17,000) IPSYS Software 28 Green St. Newbury, MA 01951 (508) 463-0006 IPSYS Software plc Marlborough Court Pickford Street Macclefield, Cheshire SK11 6JD U. K. +44 (625) 616722 TurboCASE --------- *ER diagrams and state charts *design portion supports class hierarchy, collaboration *Macintosh ($995) StructSoft 5416 156th Ave SE Bellevue, WA 98006 206-644-9834 VIEWS-SF -------- *supports VSF's extensive approach (including rules) some of which are based on other popular notations *C++ template generation, reverse engineerings *OS/2, Unix ($8,000¡$23,500) Virtual Software Factory, Inc 13873 Park Center Rd, #218 Herndon, VA 22071 (703) 318-1180 ARTICLES, PRODUCTS, AND PAPERS ON CASE SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------- > "CASE Products 1990: A survey of CASE Products from US Vendors", Arbeitspapiere der GMD 518, March, 1991. Heinz W. Schmidt, Ovum Ltd 1 Mortimer Street London W1N 7RH England Tel: +44 71 255 2670 Fax: +44 71 255 1995 From: oil@idt.unit.no (Odd Ivar Lindland) Subject: Re: CASE Survey Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim Date: Fri, 9 Jul 93 06:57:25 GMT >... A comprehensive survey of 35 commercial CASE tools is given in "Ovum evaluates: CASE products". It is from 1993 and is continuously updated. It has all the information you asked for. The bad thing is that it is very expensive ($1995 !!!). You should get a 40 % academic discount, however. Moreover, recently they had a "quick-answer discount" making the full price (before academic discount) $1295. Anyway, I believe it is good investment if you quickly want to have comprehensive information about the current CASE market. Particularly valuable is the comparative evaluation of the 35 products. > Proceedings of the Workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT) From: sjbr@cs.utwente.nl (Sjaak Brinkkemper) Subject: Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 11:05:51 GMT The proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT'93) are available as a technical report from the Center for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente. Price: Nfl 45, US$ 25 (including shipping and money transfer) Order by sending a message including a POSTAL ADDRESS to: Sjaak Brinkkemper CTIT E-mail: sjbr@cs.utwente.nl ******************************************************* * Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the * * Next Generation of CASE Tools * * Universite Paris 1 Sorbonne - 7/8 June 1993 * ******************************************************* Editors: S. Brinkkemper and F. Harmsen Center for Telematics and Information Technology University of Twente the Netherlands 174 pages Abstract The Workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT) is an annual event, bringing together leading researchers on Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE). NGCT workshop is a pre-conference workshop of the annual Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). The goal of this year's workshop, held in Paris, is to conduct an in-depth discussion of research approaches in the area of Computer Aided Software Engineering. Three main themes have been identified: * CASE architectures * Development process support * Advanced requirements engineering The workshop committee accepted fourteen papers, which are grouped in the proceedings according to these three themes. Among the topics of the papers are: multiparadigm specification for interoperable information systems, capturing design decisions, automated user interface derivation, deductive repositories, human error analysis, and business modeling. APPENDIX E ANONYMOUS FTP SITES =============================== These are anonymous ftp sites of interest to the OO community. Thanks go to Mike DeVaney (dm_devaney@pnl.gov gen ftp site list) and to Bill Kinnersley (billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu, anon ftp programming languages list), whose initial lists helped to get things going. Additional short entries are encouraged; please send additions to the author of the FAQ (and/or to Mike and Bill). Entries will be standardized and summarized in future (non-draft) FAQs and are not limited to one category. Starred entries have a summary below and can be found as ">#" followed by the description. These entries will eventually be cleaned up. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES --------------------- ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:/public/ada9x Ada-9x info, ARM cs.nyu.edu:pub/gnat/... *Ada-9x (compiler, GNU,50) ftp.inria.fr:lang/alcool *Alcool-90 (dyn ML,1) arjuna.ncl.ac.uk:/pub/Arjuna *Arjuna (Distr Prog System,2) munnari.oz.au:pub/bebop.tar.Z *BeBOP(seq,par,LP,OO,meta,46) sales@mjolner.dk BETA (Mjolner Informatics Demo) monch.edrc.cmu.edu:/usr0/snl/archive/bos-1.2 *BOS (prototyping,3) grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp/djgpp.zip C++ (for MS-DOS) prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gcc-2.4.5.tar.gz C++ (for Unix, & Objective-C) omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp *G++ for DOS (Many sites,4) tsbgw.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp: pub/toshiba/cooc-beta.1.1.tar.Z *cooC (Concurrent, OO C ext.,5) parcftp.xerox.com:pcl CLOS pion.lcs.mit.edu CLU (Sun, VAX) ftp.cs.cornell.edu:/pub/CML-0.9.tar.Z CML arisia.xerox.com Pcl (Portable CommonLoops) xcf.berkeley.edu:src/local/fmpl *FMPL (prototyping,6) nebula.cs.yale.edu Glasgow Haskell piggy.cs.chalmers.se Chalmers Haskell (hbc) software.watson.ibm.com Hermes (Unix) cs.arizona.edu Icon sun.soe.clarkson.edu ISETL (DOS, Mac, Unix, VMS,src) cs.orst.edu Little Smalltalk (C src) ftp.ircam.fr:/pub/IRCAM/programs *MAX (visual OO,7) 128.59.24.6 (MeldC@cs.columbia.edu) MeldC (Rflctv, prllel, OO lang) gatekeeper.dec.com Modula-3 cs.uni-sb.de:/pub/osmall/machine *O'small (OO lang for teaching,8) obj3dist@csl.sri.com (license or request) *OBJ3 (OO lang,9) gate.fzi.de:/pub/OBST *OBST (lang, perst, OODB,10) prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gcc-2.4.5.tar.gz Objective-C (for Unix, & C++) 128.100.1.192:/pub/ootDistrib *OOT (OO Turing demo,11) neptune.inf.ethz.ch Oberon (MacII, SPARC, DECstn) wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/pgmutl/oberon11.zip Oberon (MS-DOS) ux1.cso.uiuc.edu:pub/amiga/fish/ff380 Oberon (Amiga) watserv1.waterloo.edu occam (VAX sim, Tahoe) wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/unix-c/languages/ops5 OPS5 (interpreter) wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc PL/I (interpreter) watserv1.waterloo.edu Russell parcftp.xerox.com:pub/russell Russell ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:pub/sather *Sather (was simple Eiffel,12) altdorf.ai.mit.edu: scm Scheme (small, portable) gatekeeper.dec.com: elk Scheme (for Suns) acorn.cs.brandeis.edu: gambit Scheme (for 68K's) otis.stanford.edu *Self (13) self.stanford.edu Self cs.nyu.edu SETL2 (DOS, OS/2, Mac, Unix) rascal.ics.utexas.edu SIMULA 67 (Mac) prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu Smalltalk-80 (GNU v1.1) st.cs.uiuc.edu *Smalltalk V (38) cs.yale.edu:pub/ml SML/NJ research.att.com:dist/ml SML (Version 0.75) sbcs.sunysb.edu SML (lazy) gatekeeper.dec.com Modula-3 (SRC) ucbvax.berkeley.edu tcl ftp.cs.umu.se:/pub/umlexe01.zoo uML csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/compilers/list Free Compilers/Interp's list primost.cs.wisc.edu: pub/comp.compilers/LanguageList* Bill Kinnersley's list idiom.berkeley.ca.us: pub/compilers-list/LanguageList* See also Knowledge Media cd-rom collection on Languages, entry 47. COMPILER TOOLS -------------- prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/bison-1.14.tar.Z Yacc ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/programming/languages/C++ *C++ gram, etc.,14 [See also Free Compilers and Kinnersley's List above!] DATABASES (See also APPENDIX B) ------------------------------- ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/CB *ConceptBase (OODB, reqkey,15) pippin.cs.monash.edu.au:pub/export/diamond-0.1.2.tar.Z *C++ OODB (16) wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/encore.tar.Z Encore of Brown Univ ftp.cs.wisc.edu:exodus *Exodus (Storage Man, perst,17) ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/unix/GRAS522_3 *GRAS (18) mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp *MOOD (OODB, lim arch,19) src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/databases MOOD/Postgres/OBST copies gate.fzi.de:/pub/obst *OBST/STONE(schema,prst obj,10) research.att.com *Ode (C++ OODB,20) postgres.berkeley.edu:pub *POSTGRES (Ext. Rel. DBMS,21) toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU:pub/postgres *POSTGRES,21 cs.utexas.edu:pub/garbage/{swizz,texaspstore}.ps *The Texas Persistent Store,41 See also idiom.berkeley.ca.us:pub/free-databases, object-oriented databases. TOOLS AND CASE -------------- ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/programming/languages/C++ *Cls bwsr,tmplates,GC,etc,14 siam.unibe.ch:C++/Sniff1.6/ *Sniff (C++ devel environ,22) self.stanford.edu:/pub/sniff *Sniff,22 ftp.centerline.com:/pub/tags-1.0.tar.Z *C++ tags, 23 interviews.stanford.edu:/pub/3.1.tar.Z InterViews 3.1 (C/C++ browser) wsmr-simtel20.army.mil(192.88.110.20) OOTool (win31 directory?) ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/eiffel *Eiffel archive, 24 ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/eiffel/eiffel-3/sig *short tool, 24 ftp.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/gb/* *C++ Signatures (subtyping),40 LIBRARIES AND INTERFACES ------------------------ arjuna.ncl.ac.uk *C++SIM (Simula-like Sim Pkg,38) csc.ti.com:pub/COOL.tar.Z *COOL(C++, orig from TI,25) cs.utexas.edu:pub/COOL/GE_COOL2.1.tar.Z *COOL(C++, Cfront 2.1, from GE,25) omg.org:pub/NEC_DII/93-1-2... CORBA (DII) claude.ifi.unizh.ch:under pub/standards/spec CORBA Spec omg.org:pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/bin *idl.SunOS4.x, idl.Solaris2.x,26 ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/programr *MindFrame for Windows,54 ftp.th-darmstadt.de:pub/programming/languages/C++ *NIHCL COOL OATH ET++,etc,14 straylight.acs.ncsu.edu:/pub/ose *OSE C++lib,42 watmsg.UWaterloo.ca:pub/uSystem *u++(C++ Trans. and Concry RTS,48) DOCUMENTATION AND INFO SERVERS ------------------------------ ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Web/xmosaic or info.cern.ch:pub/www *Browser for OO info,27 ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/programming/languages/C++ *C++ docs, code, net sums,14 ftp.cm.cf.ac.uk:pub/Eiffel Eiffel FAQ zaphod.uchicago.edu:/pub/faq.8-25[.Z] OO FAQ (this document) http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/FAQ/OO-FAQ/ *OO FAQ(hypertext version),WWW,27 http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/OOinfo/ *OO Information sources on WWW,27 byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/anon/OODBMS/evolution-summary OODB Schema Evol Summary byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/anon/OODBMS/Manifesto.{PS,txt}.Z OODB Manifesto PAPERS ------ ftp.cs.tcd.ie:/pub/tcd/tech-reports *Amadeus,persistence,62 scslwide.sony.co.jp:pub/CSL-Papers *Apertos (MO Distr OS,28) sail.stanford.edu:pub/MT/93actors.ps.Z *Actors Paper (UIUC,29) biobio.cs.uiuc.edu:directory pub/papers *Actors Papers,29 euagate.eua.ericsson.se:ftp/pub/eua/c++/rules.ps.Z *C++ coding standard,44 self.stanford.edu:pub/papers/chambers-thesis *Chambers' Thesis,30 choices.cs.uiuc.edu Choices OO OS ftp.chorus.fr:pub/chorus-reports *Chorus,Dist,RT,MicroK,63 http://cui_www.unige.ch/Chloe/Oscar/home.html Concurrency Papers,WWW,27 ftp.gte.com:pub/dom *Distrib Reports GTE,52 ftp.ifi.unizh.ch: pub/techreports/electra.ps.Z Electra ORB, sec 3.8.6 cs.utexas.edu:pub/garbage/gcsurvey.ps Garbage Collection,sec 3.9 wilma.cs.brown.edu:/pub/gdbiblio.{tex,ps}.Z *graph drawing,31 world.std.com:/pub/kala/TechDocs/Overview_Sun.ps,* *Kala Archive,45 ftp.ccs.neu.edu:pub/demeter/documents *Law of Demeter,32 ftp.cs.ualberta.ca:pub/oolog/state.ps.Z MUTABLE STATE OOPL SURVEY mushroom.cs.man.ac.uk:/pub/mushroom/papers *OO Dyn Grping, memory,33 st.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/papers OO Frameworks, R. Johnson cs.washington.edu:/pub/chambers/predicate-classes.ps.Z *Pred Classes (Cecil,34) ginger.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/raidPapers RAID Papers (Berkeley) sprite.(cs.)berkeley.edu:~ftp/pub/RAID-II RAID configs (Berkeley) ius4.ius.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/chimera/public/CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps.Z *Real Time,49 self.stanford.edu:pub/papers/ Self Papers vega.dur.ac.uk:/pub/papers/foot.dvi Testing OO (sect 3.11) townsend@mprgate.mpr.ca Testing OO (sect 3.11) ftp.parc.xerox.com:/pub/mops/traces.ps *Traces,kiczales,MOP,DI,43 neptune.inf.ethz.ch: pub/issac93.ps.Z Types, Comp alg (Santas) cui.unige.ch:OO-articles U. Geneva OO Group papers research.microsoft.com:/pub/papers/vdg.ps *Value Dependence Graphs,57 ftp.cs.utwente.nl:/pub/doc/TRESE *Various on OO,58 The Postgres, OBST and Exodus sites also contain a good selection of papers. GENERAL ------- ics.uci.edu:gnu/C++_wrappers.tar.Z *ACE Lib, C++ Networking,55 scslwide.sony.co.jp:pub/CSL-Papers *Apertos(Meta-Obj Distr OS, research,28) euagate.eua.ericsson.se:ftp/pub/ *Archive site,C++,Coplien,papers,etc,44 research.att.com:dist/drawdag/*.Z *Graph service,37 parcftp.parc.xerox.com:/pub/ilu/ilu.html *ILU OMG CORBA,59 netcom.com:/pub/softia/keobj.zip *KEOBJ, OO DSP micro-kernel,53 ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/programming/languages/C++ *lots for C++,14 st.cs.uiuc.edu *Manchester Archive and some,35 ftp.odi.com:/pub/oo7/results.ps *Object Design's OO7 Results,36 ftp.gmd.de:gmd/peace Peace, OO parallel OS wuarchive.wustl.edu:languages/ada/crsware *Teaching OO Course Slides,51 cs.orst.edu:pub/budd/oopintro/slides/* *Teaching Intro to OO Slides, T. Budd,56 gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/com.sources.unix/volume20/metrics *Metrics,61 OTHER ----- Knowledge Media *Big col. on cd-roms, lots of freeware,47 Computer Select Database *commercial on cd-rom,39 Walnut Creek *Internet Info CDROM, including FAQs,60 godot.uvic.ca:/pub/oopsla-93 *OOPSLA-93 Info DESCRIPTIONS ------------ >1 Alcool-90 (dyn ML) What: Alcool-90 Release 0.40.3 From: rouaix@inria.fr (Francois Rouaix) Date: 18 May 92 09:36:22 GMT Alcool-90 is an experimental extension of ML with run-time overloading and a type-based notion of modules, functors and inheritance. New constructs have been added: * Overloaded symbols (overload). * Local definition of abstract values (overload in). * Implementations and parametric functors (pack to). * Extension functors (overload with). * Class-based Dynamics (dynamic). This version of Alcool is based on the CAML Light implementation (release 0.4) of the ML language, but this release is autonomous. Alcool-90 is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.inria.fr: host: ftp.inria.fr (128.93.1.26) directory: lang/alcool files: README Copyright information. alcool270492.tar.Z Sources for Un*x machines (Apr 27 1992 Release). alcooldoc.dvi.tar.Z DVI for the Alcool-90 report draft. For questions, comments, bug reports, please e-mail to Francois.Rouaix@inria.fr >2 Arjuna (Distr Prog System) What: Release 2 of Arjuna Distributed Programming System From: arjuna@newcastle.ac.uk (Arjuna Project) Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 12:37:34 GMT We are pleased to announce the availability of a new version of Arjuna: a programming system for reliable distributed computing, and the Arjuna mailing list. The software and the manual for the Arjuna system can be obtained by anonymous ftp: arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) Arjuna System This beta release of ArjunaPR2.0 fixes all known bugs present in ArjunaPR1.2B that have been reported to us or that we have found, and contains only minimal information about how to use the new features provided. This release should be compilable with the following compilers: AT&T Cfront Release 2.1, on SunOS 4.1.x, (using Sun supplied lex and yacc). AT&T Cfront Release 3.0.1, on SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.1, (using Sun supplied lex and yacc). GCC versions 2.1, 2.2.2, on SunOS 4.1.x, (using flex(v2.3.x) and bison). Patched GCC version 2.3.3 on SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.1, (using flex(v2.3.x) and bison). Sun C++ 2.1, on SunOs 4.1.x, (using Sun's lex++ and yacc++). HP C++ (B2402 A.02.34), HP-UX 8.07, (using HP supplied lex and yacc or lex++ and yacc++). The major new features are: - Faster object store. - Support for replicated objects. - Memory resident object store. - Support for ANSAware (not available via ftp) Arjuna supports nested atomic actions (atomic transactions) for controlling operations on objects (instances of C++ classes), which can potentially be persistent. Arjuna has been implemented in C++ to run on stock platforms (Unix on SUNs, HPs etc). The software available includes a C++ stub generator which hides much of the details of client-server based programming, plus a system programmer's manual containing details of how to install Arjuna and use it to build fault-tolerant distributed applications. The software and the manual can be obtained by anonymous ftp: arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) Several enhancements and ports on various distributed computing platforms are in progress. We would be pleased to hear from researchers and teachers interested in using Arjuna. The programmer's manual contains the e-mail addresses for sending your comments and problem reports. ANSAware version of Arjuna The ANSAware version of Arjuna is available from: Architecture Projects Management Limited Poseidon House Castle Park Phone +44 223 323010 Cambridge Fax +44 223 359779 CB3 0RD Internet apm@ansa.co.uk United Kingdom UUCP ...uknet!ansa!apm Arjuna Mailing List To enable us to help people using Arjuna, an electronic mail list has been setup. You can join the Arjuna mailing list by sending an e-mail message to "mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk" containing: join arjuna <Your Name> For example : join arjuna John Smith Mail messages can then be sent to "arjuna@mailbase.ac.uk", for distribution. Arjuna Project Team The Department of Computing Science, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU, UK. Fax: +44 91 222 8232 e-mail: arjuna@newcastle.ac.uk anonymous ftp: arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) EMAIL = arjuna@newcastle.ac.uk POST = Computing Laboratory, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU VOICE = +44 91 222 8067 FAX = +44-91-222-8232 Subject: Arjuna papers announcement Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 16:47:02 GMT This is to announce the availability of most Arjuna related papers and theses via anonymous ftp from arjuna.ncl.ac.uk. These papers are available in both US Letter and European A4 standards in postscript and should now print on systems. Any problems in printing should be directed to arjuna@newcastle.ac.uk. Since there are too many papers to describe in one posting there is an index available in /pub/Arjuna/Index which contains the abstracts from all of the papers/theses and their locations within the ftp hierarchy. >3 BOS (prototyping) What: BOS From: Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu Date: 23 Apr 92 18:07:32 GMT [For readers of comp.object and self-interest, BOS is a prototype-based object system that I have, er, prototyped in Tcl. It is available via anon FTP to monch.edrc.cmu.edu under /usr0/snl/archive/bos-1.2.tar.Z (you have to cd to /usr0/snl/archive first and then get the file, due to CMU security hacks in ftpd). I thought that this would be of interest to comp.object and self-interest, so I'm cross-posting/mailing --S] Note: I play very fast and loose with the terminology of OOP to get my point across. I apologize if I offend any sensibilities, and will clarify what I say if it is obfuscated by my use of terms. >4 G++ for DOS (Many sites) :From: DJ Delorie <dj@ctron.com> :Newsgroups: gnu.announce,gnu.misc.discuss : DJGPP 1.10 is now available! : : : --- DJGPP - G++ for MSDOS/386 --- :djgpp is normally uploaded to: : omnigate.clarkson.edu 128.153.4.2 pub/msdos/djgpp : math.utexas.edu 128.83.133.215 pub/msdos/djgpp(*) : ftp.uni-koeln.de 134.95.128.208 : msdos/gnuprogs/djgpp (*) : ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl 131.155.40.15 : pub/pc/gnu/gcc-pl* & gcc-newst : wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de 134.102.228.9 pub/msdos/djgpp : src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 ibmpc/djgpp : ftp.mcc.ac.uk 130.88.200.7 pub/djgpp : UK.AC.MCC.FTPJ (JANET) user<guest> <PUB>djgpp :(*) Please do not access during working hours (7am - 6pm their local time) >5 cooC (Concurrent, OO C ext.) From: maeda@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp (Ken-ichi Maeda) Subject: cooC FTP release (2nd posting) Date: 2 Jul 93 15:13:11 Organization: TOSHIBA R & D Center, Kawasaki, JAPAN. We are pleased to announce the release of new object oriented language based on C. The language has support for concurrent object execution with synchronous or asynchronous message pssaing and wait when necessary reply handling. The language known as cooC (concurrent object oriented C) is available by anonymous FTP for research purposes. FTP Site: tsbgw.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp (133.196.1.11) File: pub/toshiba/cooc-beta.1.1.tar.Z The released version of cooC employs SunOS(TM) LWP (light weight process), to obtain concurrent execution. The release consists of the language translator (cooC->C), a runtime library (SunOS(TM)), a concurrent object based debbuger, an example groupware application (SharedDraw) and some technical papers. BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR ANY PART OF THE SYSTEM. TOSHIBA Corporation while making cooC free for research, retains copyright. For further detail, please refer to COPYRIGHT notice in the package. Any questions and/or comments are welcome at the following e-mail address. cooc@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken-ichi Maeda <maeda@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> Communication and Information Systems Research Lab. II TOSHIBA Research & Development Center 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 210, JAPAN TEL. (+81- or 0)44-549-2237 FAX. (+81- or 0)44-520-1841 -------------------------------------------------------------------- >6 FMPL (prototyping) What: Interpreter for FMPL of Accardi, Release 1 From: blojo@xcf.berkeley.edu (Jon Blow) Date: 2 Jun 92 08:42:26 GMT An interpreter for FMPL of Accardi, Release 1 is now available for ftp at xcf.berkeley.edu:src/local/fmpl/. *FMPL is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language. *FMPL possesses lambda-calculus based constructs. *FMPL is an event-driven language; the events it responds to are mainly based on the behavior of input/output streams, not only within the unix domain but across the internet as well. *FMPL supports "pretty"-printing of internally-represented code back into readable form. *FMPL is an experimental language developed at the Experimental Computing Facility of the University of California, Berkeley. This release is something of a beta test since the language has not been widely used outside Berkeley. It is hoped that this release will draw useful comments and suggestions from the world at large that will help in improving future versions of FMPL. >7 MAX (visual OO) From: fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) Subject: IRCAM DSP software for DEC/ALPHA and DEC/MIPS Organization: Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 11:25:23 GMT ftp.ircam.fr:/pub/IRCAM/programs contains some of the IRCAM-developed software packages (in demo version; see further down for availability of the fully functional versions), including runnable binaries for both the DEC/ALPHA (osf1) and DEC/MIPS (ultrix) architectures, and soon available on other platforms (SGI and Macintosh). MAX MAX is a visual, object-oriented, programming language, initially designed for interactive musical performance, but which is suitable for digital signal processing as well as real-time control. It allows interconnecting of oscillators and filters, building custom controller modules and simulation units all from a core collection of signal processing objects. First developed by Miller Puckette at IRCAM in late 1986 to control the IRCAM 4X, it was later implemented on the Apple Macintosh as a graphical programming environment for MIDI applications. This version has been extended by the Opcode company in Palo Alto, CA (USA), and is available through them. The Alpha version (and its demo-only subset) is based on the NeXT version, where it is used to control the IRCAM-designed ISPW board. This card, based on two Intel i860 microprocessors, handles numerically-intensive real-time operations. To date, it has been extensively used in live performance of full-length musical compositions (see some references in the MAX/doc directory), as well as in scientific and experimental applications requiring real-time control. SVP SVP (``Super Vocodeur de Phase'') is a signal processing tool which was designed and developed at IRCAM by Gilles Poirot and Philippe Depalle. It is a full system for the analysis and synthesis of sound, whose core is a phase vocoder, and which comprises several modules for analysis (FFT, LPC..), filtering (band modes, surface modes...), time- scaling, mixing, spectral combination, cross-synthesis and amplification, which can be combined in multiple ways. UDI UDI is a library of C routines which provides a coherent software approach for developing and maintaining digital signal processing algorithms on stand-alone workstations or on host/array processor configuration. Initially designed for sound signal analysis and synthesis, it can be used by any application which does vector math calculation. It provides functions ranging from elementary vector and matrix operations to more specific DSP operations, such as, but not limited to, FFT, least-square, linear prediction coding, discrete cepstrum and pitch detection. UDI was actually used in implementing SVP. HOW TO RETRIEVE The following example contains underlined text. If it does not print nicely, use your favorite editor in order to remove all occurrences of "^H_" (control-H followed by underscore). Connect via ftp to ftp.ircam.fr. Engage into the following dialog (the underlined text is the reply you should provide 220 ftp FTP server (Version 6.17 Thu Mar 11 08:30:51 MET 1993) ready. Name (ftp:host): f_t_p_ (or: a_n_o_n_y_m_o_u_s_) Passwd: l_o_g_i_n_@_y_o_u_r_m_a_c_h_i_n_e_ (see NOTE further down) 230-... 230-(informational messages, please read!) 230-... ftp> c_d_ _p_u_b_/_I_R_C_A_M_/_p_r_o_g_r_a_m_s_ 250 CWD command successful. ftp> g_e_t_ _R_E_A_D_M_E_ 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for README (nnn bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: README remote: README nnn bytes received in mmm seconds (xxx Kbytes/s) ftp> b_i_n_ 200 Type set to I. ftp> g_e_t_ _s_v_p_._t_a_r_._g_z_ (or u_d_i_._t_a_r_._g_z_ or m_a_x_._t_a_r_._g_z_) ... ftp> q_u_i_t_ NOTE The ftp server requires you to give as password something of the form l_o_g_i_n_@_h_o_s_t_ where l_o_g_i_n_ is your login name (or account name, or user information) and h_o_s_t_ is the fully-qualified name of the machine you are currently calling from, which is not necessarily the one on which you get your mail. If you mistype it, the ftp server will advise you with an informative error message. AVAILABILITY For information on availability of these and other IRCAM tools with full functionality and documentation, and/or licensing of source code, as well as IRCAM publications (technical/scientific reports) please contact (in french or english, preferably): Mr. Vincent Puig Directeur de la Valorisation IRCAM 31, rue Saint-Merri F-75004 Paris, France email: puig@ircam.fr FAX: +33 1 42 77 29 47 Additional info can be found in the README file in the above directory. REPORTING PROBLEMS AND GETTING HELP ... in retrieving the software and/or in running it: please send email to manager@ircam.fr >8 O'small (OO lang for teaching) From: hense@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Andreas Hense) Subject: *** NEW O'small compiler available by ftp !!! *** Date: 25 Jun 1993 13:54:35 GMT Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum O'small - THE object-oriented language for teaching --------------------------------------------------- (Announcement of a new compiler) *** An object-oriented language for teaching? Depending on which aspects of object-orientation you want to convey you may choose your teaching language. If you want to teach the aspect of software reuse and nice graphical user interfaces, you should choose Smalltalk. If you want to show students how to program in a best selling language you should choose C++. *** In which case should I choose O'small? You should consider O'small if you believe that computer languages should have a GOOD FORMAL SEMANTICS. Everyone will agree that a language needs a formal semantics. Otherwise, your program will yield different results on different implementations. A good formal semantics does not only serve the purpose of precisely defining what the results of your programs are, it also gives insights about the nature of the language. You should consider O'small if you do not want to waste time on unnecessary details. O'small is CONCISE. Its syntax and semantics takes no more than one page (if you choose the right font). Its syntax is similar to more traditional languages. O'small has been used in a lecture showing the differences between wrapper semantics (denotational) and method lookup semantics (operational). O'small is FREE! Up to now, there has only been an O'small interpreter written in Miranda [Hen91b]. This interpreter is directly based on the denotational semantics of O'small [Hen91d]. The interpreter itself is available by ftp. However, you need Miranda in order to run it. Now, there is a NEW IMPLEMENTATION of O'small based entirely on EASILY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE. This software is not free but it does not cost anything. The new implementation is based on an abstract machine [Boe93]. You can MODIFY the language and have your students make experiments with it. The source code of the abstract machine and the specifications for the parser and scanner generators are available. Using these generators you can make experiments for your own research in statical analysis of object-oriented languages. *** I would like to TRY O'small You get the implementation by anonymous internet ftp. The following table gives the ftp connection information. Host: Net Address: Directory: ------------------------------------------------------------- cs.uni-sb.de 134.96.7.254 /pub/osmall/machine The directory /pub/osmall/machine contains the files README ANNOUNCE this file HowToGetML oma.1.00.tar.Z compressed tar-file *************************************************************************** NOTE: Ftp should be put into binary mode before transferring the compressed tar file. *************************************************************************** Here is a sample dialog: ftp ftp> open cs.uni-sb.de Name: anonymous Password: <your name> ftp> binary ftp> cd /pub/osmall/machine ftp> get README ftp> get ANNOUNCE ( ftp> get HowToGetML ) ftp> get oma.1.00.tar.Z ftp> close ftp> quit If you have a Sun 4 or a SPARC you can use the existing executable files. Otherwise, you need 'sml-yacc', 'sml-lex' and 'sml-noshare'. Read 'HowToGetML' to obtain them. Instructions on using the machine are contained in the file README. References [Boe93] Christoph Boeschen. Christmas - An abstract machine for O'small. Master's thesis, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Fachbereich 14, June 1993. [Hen91b] Andreas V. Hense. An O'small interpreter based on denotational semantics. Technical Report A 07/91, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Fachbereich 14, November 1991. [Hen91c] Andreas V. Hense. Type inference for O'small. Technical Report A 06/91, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Fachbereich 14, October 1991. [Hen91d] Andreas V. Hense. Wrapper semantics of an object-oriented pro- gramming language with state. In T. Ito and A. R. Meyer, editors, Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software, volume 526 of Lecture No- tes in Computer Science, pages 548-568. Springer-Verlag, September 1991. [Hen93] Andreas V. Hense. Denotational semantics of an object-oriented programming language with explicit wrappers. Formal Aspects of Computing, 5(3), 1993. to appear. [HS92] Andreas V. Hense and Gert Smolka. A verification of extensible record types. In Zhongzhi Shi, editor, Proceedings of the IFIP TC12/WG12.3 International Workshop on Automated Reasoning, pages 137-164, Beijing, P.R. China, 13-16 July 1992. Internatio- nal Federation for Information Processing, Elsevier, North-Holland, Excerpta Medica. [HS93] Andreas V. Hense and Gert Smolka. Principal types for object- oriented languages. Technical Report A 02/93, Universit"at des Saar- landes, Fachbereich 14, June 1993. >9 OBJ3 (OO lang) What: Release 2.0 of OBJ3 (needed for FOOPS and OOZE, concurrent OOP) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 15:07:26 BST From: Paulo.Borba@prg.oxford.ac.uk OBJ is available from SRI, see the message below; prototypes implementations of FOOPS (without the concurrent extension) and OOZE are due to the end of the year, but for both you also need OBJ. Unfortunately, I don't have any document about the FOOPS extension now, but probably by the end of the year. I will send it to you as soon as possible. What: Release 2.0 of OBJ3 is now available From: winkler@csl.sri.com (Timothy Winkler) Date: 6 Apr 92 08:35:40 GMT Release 2.0 of OBJ3 is now available! Improvements in this version include some language extensions and additional theorem proving features. In addition, an effort has been made to speed up the implementation; rewriting is often twice as fast as in the original implementation. We are including the AKCL patches from the University of Texas at Austin in the distribution, which are necessary for maintaining the portability of OBJ3 and also improve its efficiency. In addition, we are distributing a SPARC version of OBJ3. OBJ3 has pattern matching modulo associativity, commutativity, and identity. New: the system automatically computes conditions for rules involving matching modulo identity that are used to prevent obvious non-termination problems. Also new to this version of OBJ3 is a facility for controlled rewriting. This provides substantially increased support for the use of the system for equational theorem proving. To receive the OBJ3 distribution tape or an OBJ3 license, send a request to: Judith Burgess (OBJ3) Computer Science Laboratory SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493, USA Telephone: (415) 859-5924 Fax: (415) 859-2844 email: obj3dist@csl.sri.com Be sure to give us your postal mailing address. Then we will send you the OBJ3 Information Form, and License Agreement, with instructions on how to fill them out. (A KCL license form will also be included.) When you return them to us, appropriately filled out and signed, we will send you the tape, somedocumentation, and, in case you are requesting a tape, an invoice for $150.00 plus any required taxes. If you already have an OBJ3 license, then you don't need to get a new license, but, if you are requesting a tape from SRI, you are asked to pay the above distribution fee. It is also possible to get a license for OBJ3 at no charge from SRI and then get the OBJ3 distribution itself from some third party also having a license. Jose Meseguer, Timothy Winkler, and Patrick Lincoln Computer Science Laboratory SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Joseph Goguen Programming Research Group Computing Laboratory Oxford University 11 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QD, United Kingdom >10 OBST (lang, perst, OODB) What: OBST (Version: OBST3-2) From: stone@fzi.de Date: 19/3/92 [ Formerly, we used the acronym SOS, which led to a conflict with an object oriented operating system of the same name. Therefore we changed the name to OBST ("Obst" is the German word for "fruit"). As many people already use SOS (OBST) we did not change internal things like class names, environment variables and so on. ] The persistent object management system OBST was developed by Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) as a contribution to the STONE project. This project (supported by grant no. ITS8902A7 from the BMFT, i.e. the German Ministry for Research) aims at the development of a software engineering environment for education purposes and is carried out as a joint project of nine german universities and research institutions. An essential feature of STONE is that the object oriented paradigm is pursued consequently as a key concept. OBST is the common persistent object store for all tools within the STONE environment. The OBST data model can be characterized by the following properties: * Schema definition language syntactically similar to C++ * Support of multiple inheritance * Generic classes * Distinction between public, protected, and private methods * Redefinition of methods * Overloading of methods Schemas are compiled by the OBST schema compiler. The compilation results are instances of classes of the meta schema. From these instances in a next step interfaces to different programming languages can be generated. At present the C++ language binding is implemented, interfaces to Lisp and other languages are planned. Objects are stored in so-called containers. The container an object belongs to is determined at the time of object creation and fixed throughout the object's lifetime. Containers are the units of clustering, synchronization, and recovery. Objects can be referenced by other objects across container boundaries. OBST provides a mechanism to incrementally load methods. This enables programs to deal with objects whose type is defined after the program itself has been developed. This is useful in systems that provide for inheritance and it supports schema evolution. Since end 1990 the first prototype of OBST is available and is shipped to interested universities and research institutions. The system comes with the schema compiler, a library of predefined classes, a graphical object browser, the structurer and flattener and the OShell, and all manuals. Structurer and Flattener is a tool to build objects from bytestrings and flatten objects down to bytestrings. It is intended to be used when coupling UNIX tools to the object management system. The user defines a grammar that describes her objects. Afterwards, the structurer parses an ascii text according to the given grammar and creates an OBST object structure that represents the corresponding parse tree. The flattener does the inverse transformation, that means it generates an ascii text from a given OBST object structure according to the given grammar. OShell is a tool which provides interactive access to the OBST object base. There is a language called OSL which is based on the lambda calculus and defines the interface to the OShell tool. For the prototype's installation a C++ compiler (GNU g++ 1.37 or later or AT&T 2.0/2.1) and the X-Windows system (currently X11R4) for the graphical tools are required. Installation is well-tried on SUN 3/* and SUN 4/* systems and should be no problem on other UNIX machines, too. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please mail to: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) STONE Projekt Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14 D-7500 Karlsruhe 1 Germany or email to: stone@fzi.de Phone: ++49-721-9654-601 Fax: ++49-721-9654-609 Teletex: 721 190 fziKA The OBST system is available via anonymous FTP from gate.fzi.de [141.21.4.3]. The system can be found in the directory /pub/OBST. Sites interested in getting information about new OBST developments are welcome to register in our mailing list by sending an email with subject "obst-mailing-list" to stone@fzi.de. >11 OOT (OO Turing demo) What: OOT From: holt@turing.toronto.edu (Ric Holt) Date: 26 Apr 93 20:14:43 GMT OBJECT ORIENTED TURING: DEMO AVAILABLE VIA FTP OOT (Object Oriented Turing) is a programming language that has been developed at the University of Toronto. An OOT demo, which includes the fully implemented language, is available for Sun/4's running X windows. See below for instructions to copy the demo to your site. OOT supports the standard OOPL features of information hiding, classes, polymorphism and generics, as well as the usual features in C and Pascal style languages. It also supports concurrency, exception handling and system programming (pointer arithmetic, bit manipulation, etc). The OOT environment is designed for teaching Computer Science. It is being used in introductory programming courses, courses on OO concepts, compiler courses, OS courses, etc. The OOT environment is fully integrated, with multi-window editing, turbo speed compiler, integrated color graphics, GUI user interface, implicit MAKE, on-line manual, integrated demos, etc. The system includes an experimental CASE tool with an interface browser and a visual system browser. >12 Sather (simple Eiffel) What: SATHER Sather is under development at the International Computer Science Institute. Sather has clean and simple syntax, parameterized classes, object-oriented dispatch, multiple inheritance, strong typing, and garbage collection. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated with existing code. The initial beta test release of the language was in May, 1991. The compiler, debugger, Emacs development environment, documentation, and library classes are available by anonymous ftp from "icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu". "sather@icsi.berkeley.edu" is a mailing list for discussing aspects of Sather and "sather-admin@icsi.berkeley.edu" should be used for bug reports and requests to be added or deleted from the mailing list. Sather is based on Eiffel but is more concerned with efficiency and less with some of the formal and theoretical issues addressed by Eiffel. The language is much smaller than the current Eiffel, it eliminates over 40 keywords and simplifies the syntax and inheritance rules. Like Eiffel, Sather code is compiled into portable C and efficiently links with existing C code. The Sather compiler is written in Sather and has been operational for almost a year, though it is still being improved. Preliminary benchmarks show a performance improvement over Eiffel of between a factor of 4 and 50 on basic dispatching and function calls. On the benchmarks used at Stanford to test Self (including 8 queens, towers of hanoi, bubblesort, etc), Sather is even slightly faster than C++. The Sather compiler and libraries are publicly available under a very unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects. The goal is to establish a repository for efficient, reusable, well written, publicly available, classes for most of the important algorithms in computer science. There are currently about 120 classes in the library. The libraries are growing quickly and will collect together classes from many authors under the same unrestrictive license. A GNU emacs development environment for Sather is available. A debugger based on gdb from the Free Software Foundation is also available. A parallel version of Sather for shared memory machines called "Psather" is also under development. From the Sather FAQ, August 16, 1993 (See Section 1.24): Q 1: What is Sather? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sather is an object oriented language which aims to be simple, efficient, interactive, safe, and non-proprietary. It aims to meet the needs of modern research groups and to foster the development of a large, freely available, high-quality library of efficient well-written classes for a wide variety of computational tasks. It was originally based on Eiffel but now incorporates ideas and approaches from several languages. One way of placing it in the "space of languages" is to say that it attempts to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran, as elegant and safe as Eiffel or CLU, and to support interactive programming and higher-order functions as well as Common Lisp, Scheme, or Smalltalk. Sather has garbage collection, statically-checked strong typing, multiple inheritance, separate implementation and type inheritance, parameterized classes, dynamic dispatch, iteration abstraction, higher-order routines and iters, exception handling, assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. The development environment integrates an interpreter, a debugger, and a compiler. Sather code can be compiled into C code and can efficiently link with C object files. >13 Self From: hoelzle@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Urs Hoelzle) Subject: Announcing Self 3.0 Date: 28 Dec 93 22:19:34 GMT ANNOUNCING Self 3.0 The Self Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., and Stanford University is pleased to announce Release 3.0 of the experimental object-oriented programming language Self. This release provides simple installation, and starts up with an interactive, animated tutorial. Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behavior. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customizing compiler can generate very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented languages. The latest release is more mature than the earlier releases: more Self code has been written, debugging is easier, multiprocessing is more robust, and more has been added to the experimental graphical user interface which can now be used to develop code. There is now a mechanism (still under development) for saving objects in modules, and a source-level profiler. The Self system is the result of an ongoing research project and therefore is an experimental system. We believe, however, that the system is stable enough to be used by a larger community, giving people outside of the project a chance to explore Self. 2 This Release This release is available free of charge and can be obtained via anonymous ftp from Self.stanford.edu. Also available for ftp are a number of published papers about Self. There is a mail group for those interested in random ramblings about Self, Self-interest@Self.stanford.edu. Send mail to self-request@self.stanford.edu to be added to it (please do not send such requests to the mailing list itself!). 2.1 Implementation Status Self currently runs on SPARC-based Sun workstations running SunOS 4.1.x or Solaris 2.3. The Sun-3 implementation is no longer provided. 2.2 Major Changes Below is a list of changes and enhancements that have been made since the last release (2.0.1). Only the major changes are included. o The graphical browser has been extended to include editing capabilities. All programming tasks may now be performed through the graphical user interface (the "ui"). Type-ins allow for expression evaluation, menus support slot editing, and methods can be entered and edited. If you are familiar with a previous version of the Self system, Section 14.1 of the manual entitled "How to Use Self 3.0" contains a quick introduction to the graphical user interface. The impatient might want to read that first. o A mechanism - the transporter - has been added to allow arbitrary object graphs to be saved into files as Self source. The system has been completely modularized to use the transporter; every item of source now resides in a transporter-generated module. Transport-generated files have the suffix .sm to distinguish them from "handwritten" files (.Self), though this may change as we move away from handwritten source. The transporter is usable but rough, we are still working on it. o Every slot or object may now have an annotation describing the purpose of the slot. In the current system, annotations are strings used to categorize slots. We no longer categorize slots using explicit category parent objects. Extra syntax is provided to annotate objects and slots. o A new profiler has been added, which can properly account for the time spent in different processes and the run-time system, and which presents a source-level profile including type information (i.e., methods inherited by different objects are not amalgamated in the profile, nor are calls to the same method from different sites). It also presents a consistent source-level view, abstracting from the various compiler optimizations (such as inlining) which may confuse the programmer. o Privacy is not enforced, although the privacy syntax is still accepted. The previous scheme was at once too restrictive (in that there was no notion of "friend" objects) and too lax (too many object had access to a private slot). We hope to include a better scheme in the next release. o The "new" compiler has been supplanted by the SIC ("simple inlining compiler"), and the standard configuration of the system is to compile first with a fast non-optimizing compiler and to recompile later with the SIC. Pauses due to compilation or recompilation are much smaller, and applications usually run faster. o Characters are now single-byte strings. There is no separate character traits. o Prioritized inheritance has been removed; the programmer must now manually resolve conflicts. We found the priority mechanism of limited use, and had the potential for obscure errors. 2.4 Bug Reports Bug reports can be sent to self-bugs@self.stanford.edu. Please include an exact description of the problem and a short Self program reproducing the bug. 2.5 Documentation This release comes with two manuals: How to Use Self 3.0 (SelfUserMan.ps) The Self Programmer's Reference Manual (progRef.ps) Happy Holidays! -- The Self Group >14 C++ gram, etc. What: ftp site for C++ material From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) Date: 27 May 92 22:32:35 GMT There were a lot of questions about C++ material in the last time and some announcements which involved our ftp server. ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75] /pub/programming/languages/C++ At the moment we have: -- documentation and assorted stuff C++ products list as announced by Saumen K Dutta (in a subdirectory!) C++ YACC grammar, ET++ tutorial, summaries from the Net, sources from James Coplien's book (idioms...), etc. -- class libraries NIHCL (original, persistent for ObjectStore, with g++ 1.4x changes) COOL, OATH, RogueWave vector, ET++, RPC package, a package for sockets, awe (thread package) -- tools class browser (for GNU Emacs), indent++, yacc+, template processor of Brad Cox[sp?], DEC garbage collector