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. Pdf word count: 5856
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