Merge pull request #3156 from isomorphisms/patch-7

clear up wording

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/go.html.markdown b/go.html.markdown
index 47d9c234..df677894 100644
--- a/go.html.markdown
+++ b/go.html.markdown
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ contributors:
 ---
 
 Go was created out of the need to get work done. It's not the latest trend
-in computer science, but it is the newest fastest way to solve real-world
+in programming language theory, but it is a way to solve real-world
 problems.
 
-It has familiar concepts of imperative languages with static typing.
+It draws concepts from imperative languages with static typing.
 It's fast to compile and fast to execute, it adds easy-to-understand
-concurrency to leverage today's multi-core CPUs, and has features to
-help with large-scale programming.
+concurrency because multi-core CPUs are now common, and it's used successfully
+in large codebases (~100 million loc at Google, Inc.).
 
-Go comes with a great standard library and an enthusiastic community.
+Go comes with a good standard library and a sizeable community.
 
 ```go
 // Single line comment
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import (
 // executable program. Love it or hate it, Go uses brace brackets.
 func main() {
 	// Println outputs a line to stdout.
-	// Qualify it with the package name, fmt.
+	// It comes from the package fmt.
 	fmt.Println("Hello world!")
 
 	// Call another function within this package.