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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-21 19:15:52 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-21 22:35:58 +0100
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gnu: go: Improve description.
* gnu/packages/golang.scm (go-1.4)[description]: Edit for clarity.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/golang.scm b/gnu/packages/golang.scm
index b80abed493..202183ff29 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/golang.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/golang.scm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -196,10 +197,10 @@
(home-page "https://golang.org/")
(synopsis "Compiler and libraries for Go, a statically-typed language")
(description "Go, also commonly referred to as golang, is an imperative
-programming language. Designed primarily for systems programming, it is a
-compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of C and C++, with
-garbage collection, various safety features and in the style of communicating
-sequential processes (CSP) concurrent programming features added.")
+programming language designed primarily for systems programming. Go is a
+compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of C and C++, but adds
+garbage collection, various safety features, and concurrent programming features
+in the style of communicating sequential processes (@dfn{CSP}).")
(supported-systems '("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux"))
(license license:bsd-3)))