On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 06:59:10AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >From cd352d3dfd20d8fcfdddafe5547ad191cbdda37e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:18:19 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] howto: Fix typo
>
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
I took the other two, thank you very much!
I treated this one as a bug report, again, thank you! Please see below
for the corresponding commit. Thoughts?
Thanx, Paul
> ---
> howto/howto.tex | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/howto/howto.tex b/howto/howto.tex
> index bbdacbf1..fe80cca8 100644
> --- a/howto/howto.tex
> +++ b/howto/howto.tex
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Parallel programming is not as hard as some say, and we hope
> that this book makes your parallel-programming projects easier and
> more fun.
>
> -In short, where parallel programming once focused on science, research,
> +In short, while parallel programming once focused on science, research,
> and grand-challenge projects, it is quickly becoming an engineering
> discipline.
> We therefore examine specific parallel-programming tasks
> --
> 2.17.1
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commit b094718ddbe4256e606a41c660b4d4f1836baa66
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jan 16 19:31:26 2020 -0800
howto: Word parallel-programming-as-engineering less obscurely
The "where ... once ... becoming" wording might be legal English, it
is a bit obscure and less than friendly to those whose native language
is not English. This commit therefore rewrites the offending paragraph.
Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/howto/howto.tex b/howto/howto.tex
index bbdacbf..8a93774 100644
--- a/howto/howto.tex
+++ b/howto/howto.tex
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@ Parallel programming is not as hard as some say, and we hope
that this book makes your parallel-programming projects easier and
more fun.
-In short, where parallel programming once focused on science, research,
-and grand-challenge projects, it is quickly becoming an engineering
-discipline.
-We therefore examine specific parallel-programming tasks
-and describe how to approach them.
+In short, the focus of parallel programming is quickly shifting away
+from science, research, and grand-challenge projects.
+And this is all to the good, because it means that parallel programming
+is finally becoming an engineering discipline.
+Therefore, as befits an engineering discipline, this book examines
+specific parallel-programming tasks and describes how to approach them.
In some surprisingly common cases, they can even be automated.
This book is written in the hope that presenting the engineering
