[Swift-commit] r4238 - test

[wozniak at ci.uchicago.edu]

Author: wozniak
Date: 2011-04-01 17:43:32 -0500 (Fri, 01 Apr 2011)
New Revision: 4238

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   test/manual.txt
Log:
Import Swift User Guide section 1
Cf. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wozniak/manual.html


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+Swift User Manual
+=================
+Swift team <swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu>
+v0.92, March 2011
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+This manual provides reference material for Swift: the SwiftScript
+language and the Swift runtime system. For introductory material,
+consult the Swift tutorial.
+
+Swift is a data-oriented coarse grained scripting language that
+supports dataset typing and mapping, dataset iteration, conditional
+branching, and procedural composition.
+
+Swift programs (or workflows) are written in a language called
+SwiftScript.
+
+SwiftScript programs are dataflow oriented - they are primarily
+concerned with processing (possibly large) collections of data files,
+by invoking programs to do that processing. Swift handles execution of
+such programs on remote sites by choosing sites, handling the staging
+of input and output files to and from the chosen sites and remote
+execution of program code.
+