From 7bb8b4f04a5906a46beb6e5c09b1178d27067ced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:34:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] better description of Foolscap in README

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@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
 Tahoe is a "from the ground-up" rewrite, inspired by Allmydata's existing
 consumer backup service.  It is primarily written in Python.
 
-It uses the Foolscap library [10] which provides a remote object protocol
-inspired by the capability-secure "E" programming language [11].  Foolscap
-allows us to express the intended behavior of the distributed grid directly
-in object-oriented terms while relying on a well-engineered, secure transport
-layer.
+Tahoe is based on the Foolscap library [10] which provides a "translucent
+remote object protocol" inspired by the capability-secure "E" programming
+language [11].  Foolscap allows us to express the intended behavior of the
+distributed grid directly in object-oriented terms while relying on a
+well-engineered, secure transport layer.
 
 The underlying networking is provided by the Twisted library [12].
 Computationally intensive operations are performed in native compiled code,
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