On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 08:11:48AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > 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. Interesting, thank you! > > 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! Very good, one down! ;-) Thanx, Paul > Thanks, Akira > > > In some surprisingly common cases, they can even be automated. > > > > This book is written in the hope that presenting the engineering > >
