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 {{:at:atlogo.jpg?80  |:at:atlogo.jpg}} This webpage is also the home of AmbientTalk, our experimental programming language to develop applications for software running on mobile ad hoc networks. The current implementation of AmbientTalk is relatively stable. The best way to get started is to [[at:download|download]] the language and to read the [[at:tutorial:tutorial|tutorial]].
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+AmbientTalk is now [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk|open-sourced]] on Google Code under an [[Wp>MIT_License|MIT License]]!
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 ====== What is AmbientTalk about? ======
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   * It features a dynamic OO kernel language built upon the principles of prototype-based programming. More importantly, the kernel language is reflective and hence extensible from within the language itself.
-Check out the [[at:introduction|introduction]] to AmbientTalk for a hands-on example showing you the benefits in actual code.
+Check out the [[at:introduction|introduction]] to AmbientTalk for a hands-on example showing you the benefits in actual code. Alternatively, glance at the [[at:byexample|key expressions]] in the language to get a 60-second overview of the language's design and intents.
 AmbientTalk is not our only research artifact. There is also [[crime:introduction|CRIME]], a data-driven programming language which explores the logic programming paradigm to tackle similar coordination issues in mobile ad hoc networks.
+====== Why another programming language? ======
+"What does a high-level language accomplish? It frees a program from much of its accidental complexity. An abstract program consists of conceptual constructs: operations, data types, sequences, and communication. The concrete machine program is concerned with bits, registers, conditions, branches, channels, disks, and such. To the extent that the high-level language embodies the constructs one wants in the abstract program and avoids all lower ones, it eliminates a whole level of complexity that was never inherent in the program at all." - Frederick Brooks, //No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of
+Software Engineering//
 ====== Contact ======
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 ====== Research Topics ======
   * [[research:ambientrefs|Ambient References]]
-  * [[research:exceptions|Ambient-Oriented Exception Handling]]
+  * [[research:recap|Reactive Context-Aware Computing]]
   * [[research:context|Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations]]
   * [[research:dgc|Distributed Garbage Collection]]
   * [[research:modelling|Modelling for Ambient Intelligence]]
   * [[research:biomodels|Biologically-Inspired Programming Models]]