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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-This is release 1.3 of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
-implementation written in C.  Guile provides a machine independent
-execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building
-extensible programs.
+This is release 1.3 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language
+library.  Guile is an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library
+that you can link into your applications to give them their own
+scripting language.  Guile will eventually support other languages as
+well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages.
 
 Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 
@@ -65,9 +66,9 @@ CVS, and by nightly snapshots, accessible via FTP.  See the files
 
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