This is the README file for the reference implementation of IEEE PILOT by Eric S. Raymond . The following sample PILOT programs are included: tutor.p --- interactive tutorial on PILOT story.p --- program to generate a silly story from user input tea.p --- teaches the art of tea-brewing speaknum.p --- translate numbers to English goldilocks.p --- another silly-story program, more interactive It will be helpful to have handy a copy of the IEEE Standard for Programmed Inquiry, Learning, Or Teaching (PILOT). This is IEEE Std 1154-1991, ISBN 1-55937-151-X. Be sure you also get the two loose pages of corrections. The distribution includes an interactive tutorial program written in PILOT that will help you learn PILOT. It is tutor.p; to run it, make pilot and run `pilot tutor'. For help on porting this PILOT implementation to other environments, see "A Brief Tour of the PILOT Internals", included with this distribution. AUTHOR'S DISCLAIMER Don't blame me for the language design; I think it's wretched, too, and I only did this implementation for the hack value. Finally, a *real* language that's as perverse and limiting as INTERCAL... The project logo is an image of a small part from a Lionel train set, colloquially known as a 'cowcatcher' but formally a 'pilot'. No warranty express or implied, etc, etc. It runs and compiles the conforming examples the IEEE 1154 working group sent me and the tutorial I wrote for it. That's all. TO DO I can't see anyone but the ex-perpetrator of C-INTERCAL being willing to spend good hacking time on this turkey. Nevertheless, there's a TODO file for anyone afflicted with fits of temporary lunacy as severe as mine. You might find an update from my WWW home page, http://www.catb.org/~esr. Have fun with this, or something... ESR from the console of `snark' very early on a November morning...