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 **Welcome to Swift!**
 
-Swift is a high-performance system programming language.  It has a clean
-and modern syntax, and offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code
-and frameworks, and is memory safe (by default).
+Swift is a high-performance system programming language.  It has a clean modern syntax, offers seamless access to existing C, Objective-C code, and frameworks, and is memory safe (by default).
 
 Although inspired by Objective-C and many other languages, Swift is not itself a
 C-derived language. As a complete and independent language, Swift packages core