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@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ e.g. understanding why a process "gives its turn away."
 For a pretty-printed PDF version, see 
 [https://github.com/changlinli/peterson-tlaplus/releases/download/v1.1/Peterson.pdf](https://github.com/changlinli/peterson-tlaplus/releases/download/v1.1/Peterson.pdf).
 
-This is meant as an intermediate introduction to TLA+ users. An example is
-someone who has just finished Leslie Lamport's video course on TLA+. The
-specification also has a lot of comments which I hope help even non-TLA+ users
+This specification may seem long, but it is largely comments, which I hope help even non-TLA+ users
 understand the intuition behind Peterson's algorithm better.
 
 Note that I've chosen to take a loose translation of Peterson's algorithm as it