TOL - GNU Time-Oriented Language Library
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This is TOL, the GNU Time-Oriented Language Library: an interpreter,  
declarative, autoevaluative programming language with dinamic memory management
and lazy evaluation.

TOL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License.

The GNU General Public License does not permit this software to be
redistributed in proprietary programs.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Availability
============

The current "unstable" version of TOL is always available from
http://tol.bayesforecast.com under the downloads section.


Installation
============

TOL follows the standard GNU installation procedure.  Please refer to
the INSTALL file in this distribution for more detailed instructions.

For information about specific platforms and compilers, see the
"Compilation Notes" section in the INSTALL file.

More information about TOL
===========================

The project homepage is http://tol.bayesforecast.com

See the NEWS file for recent changes to this software.

The TOL Manual is being written. You have some web-based tutorials on
the project's homepage, http://tol.bayesforecast.com

Reporting Bugs
==============

A list of known bugs can be found in the BUGS file.  
Details of compilation problems can be found in the INSTALL file.

If you find a bug which is not listed in these files please report it
to the website or at the nexts email address:
   Daniel Rus <daniel@uponeits.com>
   Jorge Suit Pérez <jsperez@bayesinf.com>

All bug reports should include:

       The version number of TOL, and where you obtained it.
       The operating system and architecture
       The compiler used, including version number and compilation options
       A description of the bug behaviour
       A short program which reproducibly exercises the bug

It is also useful if you can report whether the same problem occurs
when the software is compiled without optimization.

Thank you.

Contributing to TOL
===================

If you are interested in participating in TOL development, please send
an email to <request@bayesinf.com> or direct to Jorge Suit Pérez
<jsperez@bayesinf.com> or Daniel Rus <daniel@uponeits.com>.
