[Swift-commit] r7274 - trunk/docs/userguide
davidk at ci.uchicago.edu
davidk at ci.uchicago.edu
Thu Nov 7 09:52:01 CST 2013
Author: davidk
Date: 2013-11-07 09:52:00 -0600 (Thu, 07 Nov 2013)
New Revision: 7274
Modified:
trunk/docs/userguide/overview
Log:
Suggested updates from swift-support #23529
Modified: trunk/docs/userguide/overview
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--- trunk/docs/userguide/overview 2013-11-06 20:59:25 UTC (rev 7273)
+++ trunk/docs/userguide/overview 2013-11-07 15:52:00 UTC (rev 7274)
@@ -2,18 +2,18 @@
--------
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/trunk/tutorial/tutorial.html
+consult the
+http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/trunk/tutorial/tutorial.html[Swift tutorial].
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 script.
+Swift.
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.
+execution of programs.
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