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 # Basic Syntax
 
-Much of the Rust syntax will be familiar to you from C or C++:
+Much of the Rust syntax will be familiar to you from C, C++ or Java:
 
 * Blocks and scopes are delimited by curly braces.
 * Line comments are started with `//`, block comments are delimited by `/* ...