On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:42:13 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:52:29PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:36:08 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Please find inline comments below.
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well, nowadays, you can try "google translate".
>> It recognizes the use of "where" as a subordinate conjunction in the
>> original paragraph.
>
> Huh. I didn't realize that Google Translate could recognize parts of
> speech. That would be quite nice! Except that I am still not seeing
> how to make it do that. What is the trick?
When you select English -> Japanese, it is translated most of the time
as the same as
In short, although parallel programming once focused on science,
research, and grand-challenge projects, it is quickly becoming
an engineering discipline.
"Most of the time" is due to the variation of translation for their
machine learning purposes.
English -> Spanish translation simply maps "where" to "donde".
"Donde" does not mean "although" in Spanish, I guess.
Translation between European languages tends to be better than
that involving Japanese (especially regarding the delicate choice of
particles such as "ha" and "ga"), but not in this case.
>
> Or was the trick for you to translate it into Japanese and used your
> knowledge of Japanese and Google Translate's mapping of words and phrases
> to identify the part of speech?
>
>> I don't know why such a use case of "where" is not on my dictionary...
>
> I have a printed copy of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (the
> larger version was more than ten dictionary-sized volumes back in
> the mid-1970s), and it says in definition B4:
>
> Introducing a clause as obj. of the verb or preposition, or
> as a predicate: orig., a case in which, a person to whom
> (now only spec. as the object of love or marriage): now,
> the respect or particular in which.
>
> So my use is a bit old-fashioned, which might be why it is not in
> your dictionary. But I have the hair color to match old fashioned,
> so maybe it was OK while it lasted. ;-)
In https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/where#English,
1st entry in Conjunction reads:
1. While on the contrary; although; whereas.
It has a few quotations which match the pattern in question.
>
>> And saying "shifting away from" could be misleading because "science,
>> research, and grand-challenge projects" are still driving parallel
>> programming.
>
> Excellent point, thank you! I certainly should not unnecessarily alienate
> people in those fields.
>
>> So maybe it might be better to revert this change, or to rephrase some more.
>
> How about the following instead?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> commit 64cf378960689deef3d23359eaddea9a21ee683d
> 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..9d73269 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, parallel programming is no longer focused solely on 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.
Looks good to me!
Thanks, Akira
> In some surprisingly common cases, they can even be automated.
>
> This book is written in the hope that presenting the engineering
>
