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fix some incorrect wording noted by David

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<indexterm><primary>Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)</primary><secondary>parts of</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
Nmap's scripting engine is essentially three distinct
parts. The largest part is the embeddable Lua
interpreter. This
is a lightweight language designed for extensibility. It offers
a powerful and well documented API for interfacing with other
software (such as Nmap).
The core of the Nmap Scripting Engine is an embeddable Lua
interpreter. Lua is a lightweight language designed for
extensibility. It offers a powerful and well documented API for
interfacing with other software such as Nmap.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)</primary><secondary>library</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
The second part of the Nmap Scripting Engine is the NSE library, which
The second part of the Nmap Scripting Engine is the NSE Library, which
connects Lua and Nmap. This layer
handles issues such as initialization of the Lua interpreter,
scheduling of parallel script execution, script retrieval and
more. It is also the heart of the NSE network I/O framework and the
exception handling mechanism.
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)</primary><secondary>library</secondary></indexterm>
<para>
The third part of NSE is the NSE library. This library was
written to add special functionality and to augment the small
feature set of Lua. The NSE library is made up of <ulink url="http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.3">Lua modules</ulink>
written in either C, or Lua itself.
</para>
exception handling mechanism. It also includes utility libraries to make scripts more powerful and convenient. The utility library modules and extensions are described in <xref linkend="nse-library"/>.</para>
<sect2 id="nse-lua">
<title>Lua Base Language</title>