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 ## Frontend/JavaScript
 
-If you need JavaScript, you probably want Purescript for generating JS. Purescript *not* strictly Haskell but it is very similar and quite pleasant.
+If you need JavaScript, you probably want Purescript for generating JS. Purescript is *not* strictly Haskell but it is very similar and quite pleasant.
 
 - http://www.purescript.org/
 - http://try.purescript.org/
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 People vastly overestimate the difficulty of using Lens. Anybody comfortable with Functor/Foldable/Traversable (or even just the first one) can leverage lenses and prisms to make their life happier.
 
-If you've ever done something like: `(fmap . fmap)` you've were "lensing" in your head.
+If you've ever done something like: `(fmap . fmap)` you were "lensing" in your head.
 
 I recommend these two tutorials/introductions: