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@@ -105,35 +105,33 @@ The demand for SPAs in the past decade has only grown. Users and
 stakeholders continually expect larger and more sophisticated SPAs.
 
 SPA implementors have responded by creating a widening variety of
-special-purpose programming languages. Each new language promotes one
-or more paradigms, application architectures, or development
-workflows, and claim some advantage relative to the status quo.
+special-purpose programming languages that compile to JavaScript. Each
+new language promotes one or more paradigms, application
+architectures, or development workflows, and claim some advantage
+relative to the status quo.
 
 This paper presents one new such language, JavaScript-Assisted Common
-Lisp (JACL). As an implementation of an extended subset of Common Lisp
-(CL), JACL is informed not just by the author's SPA development
-experience, but also by the sum of experience with Lisp since 1957
-through its specification as ANSI Common Lisp in 1994.
-
-While the Web barely existed in 1994, and JS didn't exist at all until
-1995, many of the challenges inherent in large-scale industrial
-application development were known long before the advent of the
-Web. The design of CL is filled with hard-won knowledge about how to
-overcome these challenges and rapidly build high-quality,
-high-performance applications.
+Lisp (JACL). JACL is as an implementation of an extended subset of
+Common Lisp (CL). CL is a famously powerful and flexible language, and
+a proven substrate for large-scale application development.
+
+While the Web had existed for only a few years by 1994, and JS didn't
+exist at all until 1995, many of the challenges inherent in
+large-scale industrial application development were known long before
+the advent of the Web. The design of CL is filled with hard-won
+knowledge about how to overcome these challenges and rapidly build
+high-quality, high-performance applications.
 
 The primary goal of the JACL project is to ease the task of SPA
-development by applying the design of CL to the challenges faced by
-implementors. JACL is envisioned as the means to that goal, and to
-have at least the following ancillary affordances:
+development by applying the design of CL to the challenges now faced
+by SPA implementors. JACL is envisioned as the means to that goal, and
+to have at least the following ancillary affordances:
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item Support for a compelling interactive development experience in
-    the Lisp tradition.
+  \item Compelling interactive development experience.
   \item Ability to load source code from the host filesystem.
   \item Fluent interoperation with external JavaScript libraries.
-  \item Ability to produce competitively fast and small deliverable
-    executables.
+  \item Ability to produce fast and small deliverable executables.
 \end{itemize}
 
 In this paper, I will describe JACL's design and the current state of