Hope
<language> A
functional programming language designed by R.M. Burstall, D.B. MacQueen and D.T. Sanella at
University of Edinburgh in 1978.
It is a large language supporting user-defined
prefix, infix or
distfix operators.
Hope has
polymorphic typing and allows
overloading of operators which requires explicit type declarations.
Hope has lazy lists and was the first language to use call-by-pattern.
It has been ported to
Unix,
Macintosh, and
IBM PC.
See also
Hope+,
Hope+C,
Massey Hope,
Concurrent Massey Hope.
(ftp://brolga.cc.uq.oz.au/pub/hope).
[R.M.Burstall, D.B.MacQueen, D.T.Sanella, "HOPE: An experimental applicative language", Proc. 1980 Lisp conf., Stanford, CA, p.136-143, Aug 1980].
["A HOPE Tutorial", R. Bailey, BYTE Aug 1985, pp.235-258].
["Functional Programming with Hope", R. Bailey, Ellis Horwood 1990].
