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 ### Benefits of Cappuccino for Application Development:
    
-* Developer productivity - a rich palette of interface controls and robust event managment APIs go well beyond the functionality provided by current browser standards, allowing rich applications to quickly be built up using high-level constructs that are designed to work well together.
-* Consistency - predictable behavior across different platforms with desktop-class usability and user experience.
+* Developer productivity – a rich palette of interface controls and robust event managment APIs go well beyond the functionality provided by current browser standards, allowing rich applications to quickly be built up using high-level constructs that are designed to work well together.
+* Consistency – predictable behavior across different platforms with desktop-class usability and user experience.
 * Stability – use of time-tested APIs means an absense of the churn which is all too common in the browser-app ecosystem found elsewhere.
 * Cross-platform development – any programmer's text editor or IDE is sufficient. The compiler and other parts of the toolchain (used to prepare applications for deployment) are hosted by Node.js. 
-* Extensibility - custom interface controls can reliably build on framework-included controls, when extended or new functionality is required.
+* Extensibility – custom interface controls can reliably build on framework-included controls, when extended or new functionality is required.
 * Objective-J's [message-passing architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing), which the Cappuccino APIs leverage, promotes loose coupling of an app's component functionality — making large scale development more managable.
 * Comprehensive documentation for Objective-J is supplemented by over two decades of resources for Objective-C and Cocoa®. Additionally, a large public catalog of native Objective-C applications offers valuable guidance for development. Translation of such sample code to Objective-J is often trivial (see below).