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Re: [PATCH] Book quote clarification.

From: Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-09-20 21:33:28 CEST

`On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:21, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> Clarified quote to the computer-literate yet programming-illiterate
> audience of the book.
>
> Index: doc/book/book/ch00.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- doc/book/book/ch00.xml (revision 11055)
> +++ doc/book/book/ch00.xml (working copy)
> @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
> <simplesect>
>
> <blockquote>
> - <para><quote>If C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, think
> - of Subversion as a sort of rope storage facility.</quote>
> + <para><quote>If [the] C [programming language] gives you
> + enough rope to hang yourself, think of Subversion as a sort
> + of rope storage facility.</quote>
> &mdash;Brian W. Fitzpatrick</para>
> </blockquote>

Thanks for the thought, but I'm not going to apply this patch. I don't
think it's worth it to kludge up the quote with the explanation so that
non-programmers can understand the reference (considering that they're
not likely to understand why C gives you enough rope to hang yourself if
they don't know what C is in the first place).

-Fitz

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