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 The basic philosophy is:
 
-- The library implements only a rendering back-end, it doesn't permorm any drawing to the actual screen,
+- The library implements only a rendering back-end, it doesn't perform any drawing to the actual screen,
   hence there is no dependency on any library such as OpenGL or SDL. It just calls your front-end function
   and tells you which pixels you should write. How you do it is up to you.
 - Before including the header, define `RCL_PIXEL_FUNCTION` to the name of a function you will use to