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 ## Introduction
 
-The main idea behind babashka is to leverage Clojure in places where you would
-be using bash otherwise.
+Babashka is a native Clojure interpreter for scripting. Its main goal is to
+leverage Clojure in places where you would be using bash otherwise.
 
 As one user described it: