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 ## Welcome to Swift
 
-Swift is a high-performance system programming language.  It has a clean
+Swift is a high-performance system programming language!  It has a clean
 and modern syntax, offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code
 and frameworks, and is memory-safe by default.