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-Ambient-Oriented Programming is a paradigm for programming peer-to-peer interactions between mobile and/or embedded devices.
+[[http://ambienttalk.googlecode.com|{{:at:fixed_atlogo.png?80 }}]] Ambient-Oriented Programming is a paradigm for programming peer-to-peer mobile applications. This page is also the home of AmbientTalk, our experimental programming language for mobile peer-to-peer applications.
-[[http://ambienttalk.googlecode.com|{{:at:atlogo.jpg?80 }}]] This page is also the home of AmbientTalk, our experimental programming language to develop applications for software running on mobile ad hoc networks. To get started, you can read the [[at:tutorial:tutorial|tutorial]] or [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EssenceOfAmbientTalk|the essence of AmbientTalk in 10 steps]]. To experiment with the language, you can download [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EclipsePlugin|IdeAT, our Eclipse plug-in for AmbientTalk]] or simply download a stand-alone version of [[at:download|the interpreter]] and develop code using your favorite text editor (an [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/pipermail/ambienttalk/2010-July/000043.html|Emacs mode]] and a [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/downloads/at2textmate.zip|TextMate bundle]] are available).
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+  * Read the [[at:tutorial:tutorial|tutorial]] or [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EssenceOfAmbientTalk|the essence of AmbientTalk in 10 steps]].
+  * Download [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EclipsePlugin|IdeAT]], our Eclipse plug-in for AmbientTalk
+  * Or, download a stand-alone version of [[at:download|the interpreter]] and develop code using your favorite text editor (an [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/pipermail/ambienttalk/2010-July/000043.html|Emacs mode]] and a [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/downloads/at2textmate.zip|TextMate bundle]] are available).
 ====== What is AmbientTalk about? ======
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   * It abandons the RPC abstraction in favor of //asynchronous, non-blocking// message passing. Because the system automatically buffers such messages while the receiver of the message is disconnected, the programmer can make abstraction from temporary network failures //by default//.
   * It has built-in programming language constructs for objects to discover one another in the local ad hoc network. Peer-to-peer //service discovery// is built into the language.
-  * It features a dynamic OO kernel language built upon the principles of prototype-based programming (based on Scheme, Self and Smalltalk). The kernel language supports reflection using [http://bracha.org/mirrors.pdf mirrors], which provide access to an extensive metaobject protocol, making the language extensible from within itself.
+  * It features a dynamic OO kernel language built upon the principles of prototype-based programming (based on Scheme, Self and Smalltalk). The kernel language supports reflection using [[http://bracha.org/mirrors.pdf|mirrors]], which provide access to an extensive metaobject protocol, making the language extensible from within itself.
   * The language syntax derives primarily from the 'curly brace' family of languages, but it mixes in the keyworded messaging syntax from Smalltalk as well. This, together with AmbientTalk's lightweight block syntax, enables you to easily build your own control structures. Like many other dynamic and functional languages, AmbientTalk embraces the use of blocks to express higher-order, functional patterns.
   * The current implementation of AmbientTalk embraces the JVM as a platform. It's easy for AmbientTalk programs to use Java libraries, and it's easy for Java objects to use !AmbientTalk as an embedded scripting language. This interaction is safe: even when AmbientTalk objects are "exposed" to the JVM, JVM threads [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-tr-07-15.pdf|cannot violate]] the concurrency constraints of AmbientTalk's actor model.
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   * [[research:modelling|Modelling for Ambient Intelligence]]
   * [[research:biomodels|Biologically-Inspired Programming Models]]
+  * [[research: tuples | Tuple Space-based Abstractions]]