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 This document specifies requirements for implementations
-of the \Cpp{} programming language. The first such requirement is that
+of \Cpp{}, which is a general-purpose programming language.
+The first such requirement is that
 an implementation implements the language, so this document also
 defines \Cpp{}. Other requirements and relaxations of the first
 requirement appear at various places within this document.
-
-\pnum
-\Cpp{} is a general purpose programming language based on the C
-programming language as described in \IsoC{}.
-\Cpp{} provides many facilities
-beyond those provided by C, including additional data types,
-classes, templates, exceptions, namespaces, operator
-overloading, function name overloading, references, free store
-management operators, and additional library facilities.%
 \indextext{scope|)}
 
 \rSec0[intro.refs]{Normative references}%