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@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ Libraries in different languages may be in different states of development. We a
 | Objective-C             | [src/objective-c] (src/objective-c) | 1.0     |
 
 <small>
-Java source code is in the [grpc-java] (http://github.com/grpc/grpc-java) repository.
-Go source code is in the [grpc-go] (http://github.com/grpc/grpc-go) repository.
+Java source code is in the [grpc-java](http://github.com/grpc/grpc-java) repository.
+Go source code is in the [grpc-go](http://github.com/grpc/grpc-go) repository.
 </small>
 
 See [MANIFEST.md](MANIFEST.md) for a listing of top-level items in the