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 # MoarVM
 
 MoarVM (short for Metamodel On A Runtime Virtual Machine) is a runtime built
-for the 6model object system. It is primarily aimed at running NQP and Rakudo
-Perl 6, but should be able to serve as a backend for any compilers built using
-the NQP compiler toolchain.
+for the 6model object system. It is primarily aimed at running NQP and
+Rakudo, but should be able to serve as a backend for any compilers
+built using the NQP compiler toolchain.
 
 ## Get It
 Either download it from [the MoarVM site](https://www.moarvm.org/) or clone it from GitHub:
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 ## Status
 
 MoarVM is currently in development. It can run all of the NQP test suite, all
-of the Rakudo sanity tests, and passes more spectests than any other Rakudo
-Perl 6 backend (though some backends pass tests that it does not).
+of the Rakudo sanity tests, and passes more spectests than any other
+Rakudo backend (though some backends pass tests that it does not).
 
 Unlike the JVM backend of NQP, the MoarVM repo is not currently planned to be
 integrated into the main NQP source repo http://github.com/perl6/nqp but