[pure-lang-svn] SF.net SVN: pure-lang:[566] pure/trunk

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Revision: 566
          http://pure-lang.svn.sourceforge.net/pure-lang/?rev=566&view=rev
Author:   agraef
Date:     2008-08-22 10:29:59 +0000 (Fri, 22 Aug 2008)

Log Message:
-----------
Final touches (0.5 release).

Modified Paths:
--------------
    pure/trunk/INSTALL
    pure/trunk/NEWS
    pure/trunk/README

Modified: pure/trunk/INSTALL
===================================================================
--- pure/trunk/INSTALL	2008-08-22 10:12:53 UTC (rev 565)
+++ pure/trunk/INSTALL	2008-08-22 10:29:59 UTC (rev 566)
@@ -330,9 +330,9 @@
 the latter if you know what you are doing, since it will remove files which
 require special tools to be regenerated.)
 
-There also are a number of targets like 'html' and 'pdf' which generate the
-documentation in a variety of formats (this requires groff); see the Makefile
-for details.
+There also are a number of targets like 'html' (this requires rman) and 'pdf'
+(this requires groff) which generate the documentation in a variety of
+formats; see the Makefile for details.
 
 Maintainers can roll distribution tarballs with 'make dist' and 'make
 distcheck' (the latter is like 'make dist', but also does a test build and
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@
 MAC OSX
 --- ---
 
-Pure has been reported to work on OSX, and a port by Ryan Schmidt exists in
-the MacPorts collection, see http://www.macports.org/.
+Pure works fine on OSX, and a port by Ryan Schmidt exists in the MacPorts
+collection, see http://www.macports.org/.
 
 Note that with at least some versions of the Apple gcc compiler, with all
 warnings turned on you'll get the (bogus) warning "control reaches end of
@@ -421,6 +421,6 @@
 the Pure interpreter and read online documentation in html help format.
 
 
-June 2008
+August 2008
 Albert Graef <Dr.Graef at t-online.de>
 Eddie Rucker <erucker at bmc.edu>

Modified: pure/trunk/NEWS
===================================================================
--- pure/trunk/NEWS	2008-08-22 10:12:53 UTC (rev 565)
+++ pure/trunk/NEWS	2008-08-22 10:29:59 UTC (rev 566)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-** Pure 0.5 2008-08-20
+** Pure 0.5 2008-08-22
 
 This release sports LLVM 2.3 support and a bunch of bug fixes and improvements
 in the language, the standard library and the code generator. As usual, please

Modified: pure/trunk/README
===================================================================
--- pure/trunk/README	2008-08-22 10:12:53 UTC (rev 565)
+++ pure/trunk/README	2008-08-22 10:29:59 UTC (rev 566)
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 Pure is a functional programming language based on term rewriting. It has a
 modern syntax featuring curried function applications, lexical closures and
 equational definitions with pattern matching, and thus is somewhat similar to
-languages of the Haskell and ML variety. But Pure is also a very dynamic and
-reflective language, and is more like Lisp in this respect. The interpreter
-has an LLVM backend to do JIT compilation, hence programs run blazingly fast
-and interfacing to C modules is easy.
+languages of the Haskell and ML variety. But Pure is also a very dynamic
+language, and is more like Lisp in this respect. The interpreter has an LLVM
+backend to do JIT compilation, hence programs run blazingly fast and
+interfacing to C modules is easy.
 
 WHERE TO GET IT
 ----- -- --- --
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 To start the Pure interpreter, just type 'pure' at the command prompt. You'll
 be greeted with a sign-on message, after which the interpreter leaves you at
 its prompt and you can start typing definitions and expressions to be
-evaluated. Use the 'quit' command to exit the interpreter (on Unix systems you
+evaluated. Use the 'quit' command to exit the interpreter (on most systems you
 can also just type EOF a.k.a. Ctrl-D at the beginning of the interpreter's
 command line). For instance:
 


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