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 ### Philosophy
 
-The key to understanding Nim is that Nim was designed to be as fast as C, but to be much safer. Many of the design-decisions are based on making it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
+The key to understanding Nim is that Nim was not designed to be as fast as C, but to be much safer. Many of the design-decisions are based on making it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
 In Python there are no pointers (everything is treated as a reference).
 While Nim does give you pointers, Nim gives you other, safer tools for your everyday needs, while pointers are mostly reserved for interfacing with C and doing low-level system programming.