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[Thrift Wiki] Trivial Update of "ThriftTypes" by ChadWalters

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  = Introduction =
  
- The Thrift type system is intended to allow programmers to use native types as much as possible, no matter what programming language they are working in. This information is based on, and supersedes, the information in the Thrift white paper. The ["ThriftIDL"] provides descriptions of the types which are used to generate cde for each target language.
+ The Thrift type system is intended to allow programmers to use native types as much as possible, no matter what programming language they are working in. This information is based on, and supersedes, the information in the [http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/thrift-20070401.pdf Thrift Whitepaper]. The ["ThriftIDL"] provides descriptions of the types which are used to generate cde for each target language.
  
  = Base Types =
  
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  == Special Types ==
  
  '''{{{binary}}}''': a sequence of unencoded bytes
-   * N.B.: This is currently a specialized form of the {{{string}}} type above, added after the white paper to provide better interoperability with Java, which does not support encoding-agnostic text strings. The current plan-of-record is to elevate this to a base type at some point.
+   * N.B.: This is currently a specialized form of the {{{string}}} type above, added to provide better interoperability with Java. The current plan-of-record is to elevate this to a base type at some point.
  
  = Structs =