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@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual:
   cryptographic libraries around.
   
   Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the low-level
-  crypto stuff, and providing a @emph{simple} but general interface to it.
+  crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general interface to it.
   In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm selection. It doesn't do
   memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O.
   
   The idea is that one can build several application and context specific
-  interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, testcases, benchmarks,
-  documentation, etc. For this first version, the only application using
-  Nettle is LSH, and it uses an object-oriented abstraction on top of the
-  library. 
+  interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, test cases, benchmarks,
+  documentation, etc. Examples are the Nettle module for the Pike
+  language, and LSH, which both use an object-oriented abstraction on top
+  of the library.
 
 Nettle is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free