guide: most of step 9 and start step A.

[jackhill/mal.git] / README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 508c8cb..6f8c502 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Mal is a Clojure inspired Lisp interpreter.
 
-Mal is implemented in 27 different languages:
+Mal is implemented in 28 different languages:
 
 * Bash shell
 * C
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Mal is implemented in 27 different languages:
 * Ruby
 * Rust
 * Scala
+* Swift
 * Visual Basic.NET
 
 
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ mal/clojurewest2014.mal for the presentation that was given at the
 conference (yes the presentation is a mal program).
 
 If you are interesting in creating a mal implementation (or just
-interested in using mal for something), please stop by the #mal
+interested in using mal for something), please drop by the #mal
 channel on freenode. In addition to the [make-a-lisp process
 guide](process/guide.md) there is also a [mal/make-a-lisp
 FAQ](docs/FAQ.md) where I attempt to answer some common questions.
@@ -338,6 +339,9 @@ scala -classpath target/scala*/classes stepX_YYY
 
 ### Swift
 
+The Swift implemenation of mal requires the Swift compiler (XCode) to
+build.
+
 ```
 cd swift
 make
@@ -365,9 +369,9 @@ mono ./stepX_YYY.exe
 The are nearly 500 generic functional tests (for all implementations)
 in the `tests/` directory. Each step has a corresponding test file
 containing tests specific to that step. The `runtest.py` test harness
-uses pexpect to launch a Mal step implementation and then feeds the
-tests one at a time to the implementation and compares the
-output/return value to the expected output/return value.
+launches a Mal step implementation and then feeds the tests one at
+a time to the implementation and compares the output/return value to
+the expected output/return value.
 
 To simplify the process of running tests, a top level Makefile is
 provided with convenient test targets.
@@ -496,7 +500,7 @@ example, to run step2 tests for every implementation (except MATLAB):
   run tests because runtime dependencies need to be downloaded to
   avoid the tests timing out. These dependencies are download to
   dot-files in the /mal directory so they will persist between runs.
-* Compiled languages: if you host system is different enough from
+* Compiled languages: if your host system is different enough from
   Ubuntu Utopic then you may need to re-compile your compiled
   languages from within the container to avoid linker version
   mismatches.