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author Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date Sun, 27 May 2018 16:04:34 -0400
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files README.markdown

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--- a/README.markdown	Sun May 27 16:00:53 2018 -0400
+++ b/README.markdown	Sun May 27 16:04:34 2018 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Bobbin is a simple (50 LOC) word-wrapping library for strings in Common Lisp.
 It depends only on `split-sequence`.
 
+It aims to be simple, work nicely for the majority of cases, and degrade
+gracefully for edge cases.  It is not particularly concerned with speed — if you
+need very high-performance word wrapping Bobbin is not for you.
+
 * **License:** MIT
 * **Documentation:** <http://github.com/sjl/bobbin/> (this `README`)
 * **Mercurial:** <http://bitbucket.org/sjl/bobbin/>
@@ -25,9 +29,6 @@
 Philosophy
 ----------
 
-Bobbin is about fifty lines of code.  It aims to be simple, work well most of
-the time, and fail gracefully for edge cases.
-
 Bobbin will try to break lines at whitespace.  It will only break a word in the
 middle if there's no other choice.  It does not try to hyphenate, or parse
 hyphenation: