revise/add text/links ; introductory programming language

rephrase pompous/etc. text

lib/docbook/5/xml/introductory-language.xml

@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ right for the job.
         by things that seem fun to them: games, demos, drawing pretty
         pictures programmatically, etc. They will have little nerve for
         a tedious programming language such as C, in which every task
-        takes a boatload of code.
+        often requires a large amount of code.
     </para>
     <para>
         A different type of pedagogy altogether is introducing programming to
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ right for the job.
 
 <info><title>Conclusion</title></info>
 
-    <para> I talked with a few people on the IRC about it and some of them told
+    <para> I talked with some people on the IRC about it and some of them told
         me something along the lines of “What makes you think that you know
         better than all the universities and colleges (and other schools) that
         are now teaching Java?”. Well, this is the majority must be right
@@ -1202,8 +1202,7 @@ right for the job.
         as regular expressions, dynamic-typing, Perl 5-like nested data
         structures, run time evaluation, closures and dynamic functions, and
         others that are considered common knowledge among developers of
-        dynamic languages, and any software development enthusiast who is
-        worth his weight in salt.
+        dynamic languages.
     </para>
     <para>
         So my opinion still remains: Perl, Python or Ruby are the best
@@ -1235,7 +1234,7 @@ right for the job.
         <para>
             This is a quote attributed to
             <link xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi">Gandhi</link>.
-            The “Learn like you were going to live forever” part is not widely
+            The “Learn as if you were going to live forever” part is not widely
             understood by many workers. Many programmers believe that their
             knowledge of a few programming languages is enough, and that it is
             not necessary that they learn completely different ones.
@@ -1331,15 +1330,14 @@ right for the job.
     <info><title>Learn as Many Languages as Possible</title></info>
 
         <para>
-            Learning one computer language is not enough. Knowledge of only
-            one computer language or a few cripples the mind and causes the
-            brain to run in circles. Different programming languages introduce
+            Different programming languages introduce
             different insights: various easier ways to do certain things,
             different restrictions , different syntax, different APIs,
             different ways of doing things, different high-level mechanisms
             (or lack of them). All of this gives different understandings
             of how to program in any language.
         </para>
+
         <para>
             Many people believe that their limited knowledge is adequate.
             Java programmers are especially notorious for being opposed to
@@ -1361,10 +1359,11 @@ right for the job.
     <info><title>Learning How to Read Code and Enhance Existing Code</title></info>
 
         <para>
-            At present, universities and other spend most time teaching
-            programmers how to write code. However, most of what programmers
-            have to do for work or for pro-bono work (like open source
-            projects) is to read code, and to enhance existing code.
+            At present, universities and other educational institutes, spend
+            the most time teaching programmers how to write code. However, most
+            of what programmers have to do for paid work or for pro-bono work
+            (like open source projects) is to read code, and to enhance
+            existing code.
         </para>
         <para>
             <link xlink:href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/">Joel Spolsky (“Joel on
@@ -1428,7 +1427,7 @@ right for the job.
         Thanks to Pete_I on Freenode,
         <link xlink:href="http://www.zak.co.il/">Omer Zak</link>,
         <link xlink:href="http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/">chromatic</link>,
-        Jonathan Scott Duff, Sagiv Barhoom and others for reviewing
+        Jonathan Scott Duff, Sagiv Barhoom, and others, for reviewing
         early drafts of this essay and giving some editorial assistance.
     </para>