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@@ -13,56 +13,64 @@ All exported symbols are reexported in a convenience package UIOP.
 
 The files that constitute UIOP are, in loading order:
 
-* package: to deal with packages and their symbols, most notably including
-  DEFINE-PACKAGE, a variant of defpackage capable of hot-upgrade.
+* package: deals with packages and their symbols, most notably including
+  define-package, a variant of defpackage capable of hot-upgrade, or
+  symbol-call and find-symbol* that are also useful for use in .asd files
+  before packages have been defined.
 
-* common-lisp: to let you paper over various sub-standard implementations.
+* common-lisp: lets you paper over various sub-standard implementations.
   Big offenders are Corman, GCL, Genera, MCL, all of them unmaintained.
   Supported without serious issues are:
-  ABCL, Allegro, CCL, CMUCL, CLISP, ECL, LispWorks, MKCL, SBCL, XCL.
+  ABCL, Allegro, CCL, CMUCL, CLISP, ECL, LispWorks, MKCL, SBCL, SCL, XCL.
 
-* utility: to provide macros and functions that do not involve I/O, handling
+* utility: provides macros and functions that do not involve I/O; it handles
   control-flow, (p)lists, characters, strings, functions, classes, conditions,
   "stamps" (real number or boolean for +/- infinity), versions, etc.
   It also sports uiop-debug, a useful tool to help you debug programs.
 
-* os: to extract information from your environment, including
-  an API identifier, unix vs windows, getenv, hostname, getcwd and chdir, etc.
+* os: extracts information from your environment, including
+  an ABI identifier, features that distinguish Unix vs Windows,
+  getenv, hostname, getcwd and chdir, etc.
 
-* pathname: to survive the gruesome non-portability trap that are CL pathnames
-  (and their lovecraftian "logical" variant), offering a vast array of functions
-  and a sensible, usable abstraction to specify relative pathnames.
+* pathname: overcomes the gruesome non-portability trap that are CL pathnames
+  (and their lovecraftian "logical" variant), offering a vast array of
+  functions and a sensible, usable abstraction to specify relative pathnames.
+  It has a function merge-pathnames* to use instead of merge-pathnames, or
+  even better, subpathname and its variant subpathname*; it has also plenty
+  of functions for dealing with pathnames being directory vs file,
+  physical vs logical, absolute vs relative, and more.
 
-* filesystem: to provide portable access to the filesystem, inspecting it,
+* filesystem: provides portable access to the filesystem, inspecting it,
   only using truename when desired, using native OS namestrings,
   atomic file renaming, creating or deleting directories, etc.
 
-* stream: to portably deal with character encodings (external formats),
-  element types, safe READing and WRITEing, opening files or temporary files,
-  providing FORMAT-like designators for streams, flushing output buffers,
-  consuming or copying streams, concatenating files, copying files, etc.
+* stream: portably deals with *stderr* vs *error-output*, character encodings
+  (external formats), element types, safe READing and WRITEing, opening files
+  or temporary files, providing FORMAT-like designators for streams,
+  flushing output buffers, consuming or copying streams, concatenating streams
+  or files, copying files, etc.
 
-* image: to portably deal with images, dumping them, restoring from them,
+* image: portably deals with images, dumping them, restoring from them,
   registering hooks to run at suitable events in the image lifetime,
   printing backtraces, handling fatal conditions, using or avoiding debug modes,
   accessing command line arguments or quitting the process.
 
-* run-program: to portably spawn external processes and capture their output.
+* run-program: portably spawns external processes and captures their output.
   Can also capture error-output, inject input, or let it all be interactive.
 
-* lisp-build: to portably compile common-lisp code, handle compilation results,
-  muffle uninteresting conditions, save and restore deferred warnings,
-  run hooks around compilation (to e.g. control optimizations or syntax),
-  identify the pathname of the current file, combine FASLs, etc.
+* lisp-build: portably compiles common-lisp code, handles compilation results,
+  muffles uninteresting conditions, saves and restores deferred warnings,
+  runs hooks around compilation (to e.g. control optimizations or syntax),
+  identifies the pathname of the current file, combines FASLs, etc.
 
-* configuration: to write portable configuration files, using best practices
-  to define and validate syntax, search standard paths,
+* configuration: helps you define portable configuration files, using best
+  practices to define and validate syntax, search standard paths,
   let users specify pathnames or pathname patterns, etc.
 
-* backward-driver: to provide backward-compatibility with earlier incarnations
+* backward-driver: provides backward-compatibility with earlier incarnations
   of this library (i.e. ASDF internals that have leaked, or ASDF-UTILS)
 
-* driver: to reexport all the above utilities in a single package UIOP.
+* driver: reexports all the above utilities in a single package UIOP.
 
 
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