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 Machinarium allows to create fast networked and event-driven asynchronous applications in
 synchronous/procedural manner instead of using traditional callback approach.
 
-The library is based on using and combining OS threads (pthreads) and efficient cooperative
-multi-tasking primitives (coroutines). Each coroutine executed using own stack context
-and scheduled transparently by event loop logic (epoll).
+The library is based on combination of OS threads (pthreads) and efficient cooperative
+multi-tasking primitives (coroutines). Each coroutine executed using own stack context and
+transparently scheduled by event loop logic (epoll).