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 Abstract
 ========
 
-The Muddle programming language began existence in late 1970 (under
-the name Muddle) as a successor to Lisp (Moon, 1974), a candidate
-vehicle for the Dynamic Modeling System, and a possible base for
-implementation of Planner (Hewitt, 1969). The original design goals
-included an interactive integrated environment for programming,
-debugging, loading, and editing: ease in learning and use; facilities
-for structured, modular, shared programs; extensibility of syntax,
-data types and operators: data-type checking for debugging and
-optional data-type declarations for compiled efficiency; associative
-storage, coroutining, and graphics. Along the way to reaching those
-goals, it developed flexible input/output (including the ARPA
-Network), and flexible interrupt and signal handling. It now serves as
-a base for software prototyping, research, development, education, and
-implementation of the majority of programs at MIT-DMS: a library of
-sharable modules, a coherent user interface, special research
+The Muddle programming language began existence in late 1970 as a 
+successor to Lisp (Moon, 1974), a candidate vehicle for the Dynamic 
+Modeling System, and a possible base for implementation of Planner 
+(Hewitt, 1969). The original design goals included an interactive 
+integrated environment for programming, debugging, loading, and 
+editing: ease in learning and use; facilities for structured, 
+modular, shared programs; extensibility of syntax, data types and 
+operators: data-type checking for debugging and optional data-type 
+declarations for compiled efficiency; associative storage, 
+coroutining, and graphics. Along the way to reaching those goals, it 
+developed flexible input/output (including the ARPA Network), and 
+flexible interrupt and signal handling. It now serves as a base for 
+software prototyping, research, development, education, and 
+implementation of the majority of programs at MIT-DMS: a library of 
+sharable modules, a coherent user interface, special research 
 projects, autonomous daemons, etc.
 
 This document was originally intended to be a simple low-level
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ on.
 
 There are no "practice problems"; you are assumed to be learning
 Muddle for some purpose, and your work in achieving that purpose will
-be more useful and motivated than artificial problems. In several
+be more useful and motivating than artificial problems. In several
 cases, the examples contain illustrations of important points which
-are not covered in the text. Ignore examples as your peril.
+are not covered in the text. Ignore examples at your peril.
 
 This document does not assume knowledge of any specific programming
 language on your part. However, "computational literacy" is assumed: