docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst

Clarify that the Linux kernel is written in C and improve
punctuation in the clang sentence.

Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
index bc56dee6d0bcb1c5ad558d88a97ae0a9ede718ad..9492f64d161f5b562edbe8af8d4f34abeead4910 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 Programming Language
 ====================
 
-The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_.
-More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_
+The Linux kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_.
+More precisely, it is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_
 under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11.
-``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on
+``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on
 :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
 
 This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,