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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ codebase, making them hard to maintain and to extend. Abstraction is achievable
by several means: for example, a pure object oriented language like Java uses
objects as a primary structuring block.
Nickel (and other languages of the list, for that matter) use *functions* as a
Nickel (and other languages of the list, for that matter) uses *functions* as a
basic computational block. Functions are simple and well understood (some inputs
give an output), pervasive (as macros, procedure, methods, etc.), and
composable. Nickel is *functional*, in the sense that functions are moreover