From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 22:26:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200408222607.GA4741@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871roykdv5.fsf@kyleam.com>
Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> No substantial comments, just some typos spotted while reading through.
Thanks :>
> Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:
>
> > +As always, comments and corrections and additions welcome at
>
> s/welcome/are welcome/ ?
Umm... I guess? Would omitting "are" would only be valid
if there were a single item?
As always, $FOO welcome at
Upon a second read of the original, having "and" twice doesn't
read well to me. So final form should probably be:
As always, comments, corrections and additions are welcome at
> > +* Predictable performance
> > +
> > + While Perl is neither fast or memory-efficient, its
>
> s/or/nor/
I had to look that up, but yes, "nor" belongs there.
> > + performance and memory use are predictable and does not
>
> s/does/do/
>
> > + require GC tuning by the user.
I think "does" reads better, there, but the sentence runs on
for too long. I don't think the GC part needs to be there(*)
Perhaps just:
While Perl is neither fast nor memory-efficient, its
performance and memory use are predictable.
(*) I think memory management requires a standalone document.
> > + Low hardware requirements increases the reach of our software
>
> s/increases/increase/
Yes. I think my original wording was more about a continual
process (which it is):
Lowering hardware requirements increases
But I edited it since requirements have always been fairly low.
> > + Perl modules and bindings to common libraries such as
> > + SQLite and Xapian are already distributed by many
> > + GNU/Linux distros and BSD ports.
> > +
> > + There should be no need to rely on language-specific
> > + package managers such as cpan(1), those systems increase
>
> s/, those/. Those/
I was trying to decide between them. I thought a separate
sentence would make it less obvious "those" was referring to
package managers. In retrospect there's no ambiguity since
the entire paragraph is about language-specific package
managers.
> > +* Compactness and terseness
> > +
> > + Less code generally means less bugs. We try to avoid the
>
> s/less bugs/fewer bugs/
I was thinking repeating "less" might be more memorable.
As in: "mo money, mo problems"; "less code, less bugs" :>
But yeah, "fewer" is probably better in a full sentence.
> > +* Lightweight threading
> > +
> > + While lightweight threading implementations are
> > + convenient, they tend to be significantly heavier than a
> > + pure event-loop systems (or multi-threaded event-loop
>
> s/a pure/pure/
Oops, yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 9:49 [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl Eric Wong
2020-04-08 0:41 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-04-08 22:26 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-04-09 1:14 ` Kyle Meyer
[not found] ` <87r1wyjlop.fsf@vuxu.org>
2020-04-08 22:17 ` Eric Wong
2020-04-08 22:37 ` Leah Neukirchen
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