Two typos and a correction [PATCH]

[Alex Purins]

Agree 100%.

-- Alex 

-----Original Message-----
From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:cmpilato at red-bean.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 07:48
To: Alex Purins
Cc: svnbook-dev at red-bean.com
Subject: Re: Two typos and a correction [PATCH]

Alex Purins wrote:
> Michael:
> 
> So be it - but I disagree with relying on surrounding text to implicitly
> correct a gratuitous and blatantly false statement.
> 
> Gratuitous because dropping it (and slightly rewording for better flow) to
> have simply "This is why Subversion is so often used in software
development
> environments— it makes collaboration with other programmers easy."
> would not detract one iota from the document.
> 
> False because programming is an inherently private, singular task, with
> others becoming involved only on those occasions when it proves difficult
> (which is admittedly all the time for some developers) or when it would
take
> too long done by one person.

Yes, programming is inherently private when you look only at the act of
typing characters into a text editor, yes.

What we were getting at was that "software development" -- in the context of
a team of more than one person working on a piece of software -- is social.
 Your every committed keystroke has the potential to affect your teammates.
 It was wrong, though, to omit the bits that explicitly called out the
more-than-one-person-ness of the image we were trying to convey.  So I
changed the text to read:

   working in a development team is an inherently social ...

where "team" is the key word there.

(I also committed your nice catch of s/affect/effect/.  Thanks.)

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com> | http://cmpilato.blogspot.com/