

                MicroHope for the Acorn Archimedes

    Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1989


          Ported to the Archimedes by Michael Ben-Gershon
                 Version 4.02A, 19th December 1989






1.   Introduction and disclaimer

The Imperial College HOPE interpreter (IC-HOPE) is an experimental tool
originating in the Functional Programming Group of the Department of
Computing. Neither the implementation nor the documentation are complete
yet.  The interpreter should be regarded only as an introduction to
functional programming and the HOPE language, not as a basis for developing
large items of software.




2.   Conditions of use

This software is supplied "as is"; no warranty, express or implied, of the
merchantability of this software or its fitness for any particular purpose
is given.  In no circumstances shall the providers of this software be
liable for any damage, loss of profits, or any indirect or consequential
loss arising out of the use of this software or inability to use this
software.

You are free to give this application to anyone you please via any medium,
provided it is delivered with ALL the supplied files.  You may NOT sell this
software, or use it otherwise for personal gain.  If you wish to post it on
your Bulletin Board or include it in your Shareware library then that, too,
is fine.




3.   Support

This software is not supported in any form by Imperial College.  No
correspondence whatsoever will be entered into concerning any
problems/bugs/features of the software.  People contacting the College about
such matters will cause the Department of Computing to reconsider the future
free availability of the software.


LIMITED support (in the main concerned with the Archimedes-specific version)
is available from:

Michael Ben-Gershon
8 Linnell Drive
LONDON NW11 7LT

No telephone calls please.

However, I can be contacted as:
Prestel (and SID):  014554781
Janet:              umace03@doc.ic.ac.uk
Archive:            Michael Ben-Gershon (396)

Please report any bugs you find to this address, so other users may benefit
from improved versions.  Please note that no undertaking is given to fix any
bugs!


If you like this program and find it useful then I would appreciate a small
donation of, say, 5 or 10 pounds (since this Archimedes version is the
result of quite a lot of work, and includes many bug-fixes for the previous
(Sun Unix/MsDOS/Macintosh) versions).  This donation is a voluntary
contribution. If you send a donation and say which version of the package
you have then I will send you an update if there is one.
