'''Hope''' is a small [[functional (programming)|functional]] [[programming language]] developed in the 1970s at [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]].<ref name="BMS">Burstall R.M, McQueen D.B, SanellaSannella D.T. (1980) ''Hope: An Experimental Applicative Language''. Conference Record of the 1980 LISP Conference, Stanford University, pp. 136-143.</ref> It predates [[Miranda programming language|Miranda]] and [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] and is contemporaneous with [[ML (programming language)|ML]] (also developed at Edinburgh). It is notable for being the first language with call-by-pattern evaluation and [[algebraic data type]]s. Hope is an important language in the development of functional programming.
The name may have been derived from ''Hope Park Square'' in Edinburgh, at one time the ___location of the Department of Artificial Intelligence.
