WELCOME TO KONOHA SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
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THE KONOHA SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
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Konoha is a statically-typed scripting language for ubiquitous and 
dependable computing. It is featured by:

 * hibrid static/dynamic typing with type inferencing
 * "run anytime" compiler
 * highly portable language runtime
 * Java-like grammar and libraries

Konoha is open source software and may be freely copied on the terms 
contained in the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0. If you are 
interested in other form of license, we are preparing "Konoha 
Software Foundation License 1.0".

OVERVIEW OF KONOHA
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The language design of Konoha is characterlized by:

1 Konoha looks like Java
2 Konoha runs like Python
3 You'll enjoy fantasitc experience

INSTALL AND TRY
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You'll have to make only three steps. Try:

	./configure
	make
	sudo make install

If Konoha is installed succeedly, you can try Konoha as an 
interactive mode.

	$ konoha
	Konoha 0.5.1(awazi) LGPL3.0 (rev:1293, Apr 15 2010 20:47:38)
	[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on macosx_32 (32, UTF-8)
	Options: iconv refc sqlite3 thread regex used_memory:368 kb
	>>> 


PRIVACY NOTICE
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In order to let you know the latest release information, konoha will
send KONOHA_ARCH, KONOHA_VERSION, and KONOHA_DIST to our server. If
you mind this, you can examine details in check.c. 
	
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
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For now, there are very few manuals for programming Konoha. To get 
any kinds of useful information about Konoha, you'll at first visit
the following sites:

	http://konoha.sourceforge.jp/ (Main, in Japanese)
	http://code.google.com/p/konoha

We recommend you to join one of the following groups. Any comment 
and questions are welcome!!

	http://groups.google.com/group/konoha-users (in English)
	konoha-users@list.sourceforge.jp (in Japanese)
	
Thank you for downloading and trying Konoha!!



