Updated README.

[scheme.forth.jl.git] / README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ life as a fairly direct port of Peter Micheaux's [Bootstrap
 Scheme](https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme) (as described in
 [this wonderful series of blog
 posts](http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction)) from
-C to forth, but also includes variadic compound function support, mark-sweep
-garbage collection, quasiquotation, and a basic (non-hygienic) macro
-system.
+C to forth, but also includes pre-evaluation syntactic analysis, variadic
+compound function support, mark-sweep garbage collection, quasiquotation, and a
+basic (non-hygienic) macro system.
 
-In future, I plan to also implement a more complete numerical tower to bring it closer to
+In future, I plan to also implement call-with-current-continuation and a more
+complete numerical tower to bring it closer to
 [R5RS](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/).
 
 The goal is for the interpreter to be complete enough to be used to complete
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ the majority of the exercises found in [SICP](http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/)
 Running the interpreter
 =======================
 
-To run this Scheme interpreter, first open Julia from the src directory contained
-in this repository.  If you've not done so already, install forth.jl using the
-following command:
+To run this Scheme interpreter, first open Julia (**version >=0.6**) from the src
+directory contained in this repository.  If you've not done so already, install
+forth.jl using the following command:
 
     julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl")
 
@@ -75,12 +76,12 @@ You'll then be greeted by the following prompt:
     ;; M-Eval input:
 
 At this point you can start entering Scheme commands... but be prepared to wait
-a while for the result.  After all, when evaluating commands in the MCE you are
+a while for each result.  After all, when evaluating commands in the MCE you are
 running a program in a Scheme interpreter running inside another Scheme
 interpreter which is itself running on a Forth system that is implemented atop
-the Julia numerical computing environment.  **That's three levels of
-abstraction more than a native Julia program experiences**, so some delay is to
-be expected!
+a virtual register machine running in the Julia numerical computing
+environment.  **That's four levels of abstraction more than a native Julia
+program experiences**, so some delay is to be expected!
 
 For instance, the following example from SICP defines and demonstrates a
 recursive list append procedure: