From: Daniel Kochmański Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 08:16:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: readme: a few stylistic cleanups X-Git-Url: http://git.pulsar-zone.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c014377fe0bac17355a40415e54994ecfd8f9178;p=ecl.git readme: a few stylistic cleanups As suggested by Matthew Mondor capitalized "Lisp" and specified additional information. Fixes #148. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kochmański --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cfdcf30..8bc2349 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,13 +2,15 @@ ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language. -The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C +The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a Lisp to C compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone -executables from your lisp code and can itself be linked to your -programs as a shared library. +executables from Lisp code and can itself be linked to your programs +as a shared library. I also features an interpreter for situations +when C compiler isn't available. -ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, -Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of -the Intel, Sparc, Alpha, ARM and PowerPC processors. Porting to other -architectures should be rather easy. +ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly +BSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows (MSVC, MinGW +and Cygwin) and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha, ARM +and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be +rather easy.