r10526 - trunk/www

Author: andreas
Date: Mon Feb 13 23:30:16 2006
New Revision: 10526

Modified:
   trunk/www/learning.phtml
Log:
job: website

Updated some descriptions, removed obsolete link.


Modified: trunk/www/learning.phtml
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--- trunk/www/learning.phtml    (original)
+++ trunk/www/learning.phtml    Mon Feb 13 23:30:16 2006
@@ -23,18 +23,12 @@
 <dt><strong><a href="fragments.phtml">12 Dylan Fragments</a></strong>
 
 <dd><p>Twelve standalone code fragments show off the
-features of the Dylan programming language. If you want to get a feel for
+features of the Dylan programming language (well, eight of them currently). If 
you want to get a feel for
 things, this might be a good place to start.</p>
 
-<dt><strong><a href="books/dpg/">Dylan Programming: An Object-Oriented and 
Dynamic Language</a></strong> [<a 
href="http://www.fun-o.com/products/books.phtml#dp";>paper, US$30.95</a>]
+<dt><strong><a href="books/dpg/">Dylan Programming: An Object-Oriented and 
Dynamic Language</a></strong>
 
-<dd><p>A good Dylan tutorial by several Harlequin employees. This goes
-into much more detail than any of the online resources. The known
-issue with the book is that statements like <code>if</code> and
-<code>case</code> are not explained until chapter 11.5, whereas they
-were probably better introduced around chapter 5. But that's just a
-minor inconvenience. If you want to read an introductory book,
-<em>Dylan Programming</em> is your best bet.</p>
+<dd><p>A good Dylan tutorial by several Harlequin employees.</p>
 
 <dt><strong><a 
href="http://devworld.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop/issue21/21strassman.html";>A
 First Look at Dylan: Classes, Functions, and Modules</a></strong>
 
@@ -59,13 +53,6 @@
 Dylan. If you already know a smattering of Dylan, and can only get
 one book, this is your best bet.</p>
 
-<dt><strong><a 
href="http://www.fun-o.com/products/doc/dguide/index.htm";>Building Applications 
Using DUIM</a></strong>
-
-<dd><p>A tutorial on building GUIs in Dylan. DUIM (the Dylan User Interface
-Manager) is a library designed by Harlequin/Functional Objects for building
-portable user interfaces. We support a limited subset of DUIM using the
-GTK+ 1.2 widget set.</p>
-
 <dt><strong><a href="http://www.norvig.com/ltd/doc/ltd.html";>Converting Common 
Lisp to Dylan</a></strong>
 
 <dd><p>A set of notes on the pitfalls of translating a Common Lisp program
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