[Swift-commit] r6367 - trunk/docs/userguide
ketan at ci.uchicago.edu
ketan at ci.uchicago.edu
Mon Mar 11 11:21:08 CDT 2013
Author: ketan
Date: 2013-03-11 11:21:08 -0500 (Mon, 11 Mar 2013)
New Revision: 6367
Modified:
trunk/docs/userguide/overview
Log:
link fix
Modified: trunk/docs/userguide/overview
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--- trunk/docs/userguide/overview 2013-03-11 16:02:30 UTC (rev 6366)
+++ trunk/docs/userguide/overview 2013-03-11 16:21:08 UTC (rev 6367)
@@ -3,18 +3,17 @@
This manual provides reference material for Swift: the Swift
language and the Swift runtime system. For introductory material,
consult the Swift tutorial
-<http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/tutorial.php>.
+http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/trunk/tutorial/tutorial.html
-Swift is a data-oriented coarse grained scripting language that supports
+Swift is a data-flow 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
-Swift scripts.
+Swift script.
-Swift scripts 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.
+Swift scripts 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.
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