# HG changeset patch # User Adam Chlipala # Date 1310928592 14400 # Node ID e717e2b56b21d76c9a07f030ec1258b0ec1bc160 # Parent 4aa3b6d962c8f6f1f49597bba079f3b615d7d47a Tutorial: link to demo and manual diff -r 4aa3b6d962c8 -r e717e2b56b21 doc/intro.ur --- a/doc/intro.ur Sun Jul 17 14:37:45 2011 -0400 +++ b/doc/intro.ur Sun Jul 17 14:49:52 2011 -0400 @@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ (* This tutorial by Adam Chlipala is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. *) -(* This is a tutorial for the Ur/Web programming language. The official project web site is your starting point for information, like a reference manual and a pointer to download the latest code release. In this tutorial, we'll just focus on introducing the language features.
+(* This is a tutorial for the Ur/Web programming language.

Briefly, Ur is a programming language in the tradition of ML and Haskell, but featuring a significantly richer type system. Ur is functional, pure, statically-typed, and strict. Ur supports a powerful kind of metaprogramming based on row types.

Ur/Web is Ur plus a special standard library and associated rules for parsing and optimization. Ur/Web supports construction of dynamic web applications backed by SQL databases, with mixed server-side and client-side applications generated from source code in one language.

-Ur inherits its foundation from ML and Haskell, then going further to add fancier stuff. This first chapter of the tutorial reviews the key ML and Haskell features, giving their syntax in Ur. I do assume reading familiarity with ML and Haskell and won't dwell too much on explaining the imported features. *) +Ur inherits its foundation from ML and Haskell, then going further to add fancier stuff. This first chapter of the tutorial reviews the key ML and Haskell features, giving their syntax in Ur. I do assume reading familiarity with ML and Haskell and won't dwell too much on explaining the imported features.
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+For information on compiling applications (and for some full example applications), see the intro page of the online demo, with further detail available in the reference manual. *) (* * Basics *)