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-LK is a scripting language originally developed for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's [System Advisor Model (SAM)](https://sam.nrel.gov). LK is designed to be small, fast, and easily embedded in other applications, and provides a way for users to to extend an application's built-in functionality.
+LK is a scripting language originally developed for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's [System Advisor Model™ (SAM™)](https://sam.nrel.gov). LK is designed to be small, fast, and easily embedded in other applications, and provides a way for users to to extend an application's built-in functionality.
 
 This repository contains a cross-platform standard library of function calls and core LK engine, which includes a lexical analyzer, parser, compiler, and virtual machine. It comprises roughly 7000 lines of ISO-standard C++ code, and is only dependent on the Standard C++ Library (STL), making LK extremely tight and portable to various platforms. LK also provides a C language API for writing extensions that can be dynamically loaded at runtime.