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 Today, AmbientTalk/2 is being maintained by a number of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows of the [[:people|ambient research group]] of the programming technology lab. The language is still being used as a research vehicle, although it is accessible to the general public and can be used to develop realistic distributed applications. Today, AmbientTalk/2 is being maintained by a number of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows of the [[:people|ambient research group]] of the programming technology lab. The language is still being used as a research vehicle, although it is accessible to the general public and can be used to develop realistic distributed applications.
  
-==== About this tutorial... ====+==== About this tutorial ====
  
-This tutorial introduces the programming language AmbientTalk from the basics up to the distribution model. The tutorial does not attempt to be a comprehensive reference manual but rather tries to give you hands-on experience in using the main features of the language.+The tutorial introduces the AmbientTalk programming language from its basic building blocks (functions, objects, messages) up to its advanced distribution model (remote objects, discovery, failure handling). The tutorial is not a comprehensive reference manual that tries to give the precise semantics of all of AmbientTalk's language features. Rather, it tries to give the reader hands-on experience in using the main features of the language in an example-driven manner. 
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 +The tutorial is subdivided into different chapters that each highlight different aspects of the language. Sometimes the cohesion within one chapter is very high. For example, the chapter on object-oriented programming gives an overview of a number of language features that are all related to one another. Sometimes, different sections of a chapter are not directly related (e.g. the chapter on modular programming).
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