Sather is an object oriented language designed to be simple, efficient, safe, flexible and non-proprietary. One way of placing it in the “space of languages” is to say that it aims to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran, as elegant as and safer than Eiffel, and support higher-order functions and iteration abstraction as well as Common Lisp, CLU or Scheme. This compiler produces stand-alone applications.