Revision 3db3859a2d5615ad9d2e2fb7361bd3cc569475a9 authored by Boud Roukema on 31 May 2020, 15:52:34 UTC, committed by Boud Roukema on 31 May 2020, 15:52:34 UTC
Changes with this commit are mostly minor and obvious. Some worth
commenting on include:

* `technologies develop very fast` - As a general statement, this
is too jargony, since technology is much wider than just
`software`; `some technologies` makes it clear that we're referring
to the specific case of the previous sentence

* `in a functional-like paradigm, enabling exact provenance` -
While `make` is not an imperative programming language, I don't
see how `make` is `like` a functional programming language.
Classifying it as a declarative and a dataflow programming
language and as a metaprogramming language would seem to go in
the right direction [1-3]. I also couldn't see how the language
type relates to tracking exact provenance.

But since we don't want to lengthen the text, my proposal is to
put `and efficient in managing exact provenance` without trying
to explain this in terms of a taxonomy of programming languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming

* `A random reader` - In the scientific programming context, `random`
has quite specific meanings which we are not using here; a `reader`
has not necessarily tried to reproduce the project. So I've proposed
`A user` here - with the idea that a `user` is more likely to be someone
who has done `./project configure && ./project make`.

* `studying this is another research project` - the present tense `is`
doesn't sound so good; I've put what seems to be about the shortest
natural equivalent.

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