Isthmus is distributed as a non-trivial application of 
Adaptive Programming and as a public domain tool to integrate
Tcl/Tk with Adaptive Programming. Isthmus is implemented as a Demeter
Tools/C++ application and serves as a good example how adaptive
object-oriented programs are superior to object-oriented programs.

This file is at URL:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/isthmus/README-first

Brought to you by the collaborative effort of
Salil Pradhan and Karl Lieberherr and several members of the classes
COM1205 and COM3360 at Northeastern University. They are mentioned
at the place of their contribution. Significant contributions
are from undergraduate students.

Enhancements and applications to Isthmus make very good projects
for COM1205 and COM3360/NTU SE737 participants.

Isthmus is on the WWW at URL:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/isthmus

and also in

/proj/adaptive/www/course/isthmus

It is also as a compressed tar file at URL:

ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/research/demeter/isthmus.tar.gz

The propagation patterns of Isthmus are in:
isthmus/i*/*.pp along with the class dictionaries.

The documentation is in directory doc.

At URL:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/isthmus/doc/Users-Guide/HTML-guide/_i-manual.html

is the hypertext version of the documentation.
doc/Users-Guide contains the Latex source of the documentation
and
doc/mann contains the man pages.

doc/Users-Guide/_i-manual.ps
contains the Postscript form of the documentation.

The directory 

testing

contains regression test directories which are important for
testing enhancements to Isthmus.

-- Karl Lieberherr