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 ## Building and installation
 
-This program is written in highly portable ANSI C. The only external dependencies are `openssl` and `curl`.
+This program is written in highly portable C. The only external dependencies are `openssl` and `curl`.
 
 On Debian/Ubuntu, you can satisfy these requirements by running