PILOT 1.0

Thank you for your interest in the Pilot computer aided instructional development 
language. Originally developed by Dr. John Starkweather of the University of California,
San Francisco, I became interested in porting the language to the Unix environment 
in the mid 1980's. With a commission from Computer Language magazine's editor, I 
wrote a C-based Unix version of Pilot and then published a series of articles
about the effort in the magazine in 1985 and 1986.

Subsequent to that it floated around with nibbles from Hewlett-Packard's laptop
division, an attempt to port Pilot to the Macintosh (that never shipped), and
various others. 

Then it vanished into the network haze as I got involved in a lot of other 
projects, including the Elm Mail System and other Unix projects.

In mid-2001 I was contacted quite out of the blue by David Williams of the University 
of Michigan (physics department), who not only was exploring the Pilot language, but
actually had a copy of my creaky old C code. After a few moments of consideration, I
agreed to re-release the Pilot code base to the public under the GNU LPGL (Lesser
Public General License), with the following requests:

1. retain my name and original copyright
2. anything you do that's cool I'd like to get a copy of - if you have some
   wicked-cool innovations I'd like to help them get more dissemination.
3. if you make any $$ off this code, I'd like to receive a small donation
   (which I'll pass on to a nonprofit organization).

If you have any questions or comments, the official contact information for the
Pilot 1.0 release is:

    Dave Taylor
    taylor@intuitive.com
    http://www.intuitive.com/pilot/

Thanks for your interest in this simple, straightforward CAI language!

Dave Taylor
July, 2001