Re: Typo

On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 07:32 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> This is the current sentence, and it sounds kind of OK to me, FWIW:
> >> "Postgres95 code was completely ANSI C and trimmed in size by 25%.
>
> > That uses "ANSI C" as an adjective, which I think is sloppy wording
> > (even though English is somewhat relaxed about the distinction between
> > classes of words).
>
> Yeah, it's not great English, but it's not awful English either;
> just a rather telegraphic (abbreviated) style.
>
> Here's the thing: at this point, this documentation is itself a
> historical artifact. git excavation dates the current wording to
> 8baa8fcf4 of 1999-06-21, and that was just a small adjustment of
> c8cfb0cea of 1998-03-01, and it seems likely that that was pulled
> verbatim from some older source.
>
> So I'm disinclined to change it on grounds of "I think the grammar
> is a bit shaky". It is what it is.
>
>
>

Agreed. Besides, after a couple of more passes it grew on me, once I
filled in the missing “compared to what” sufficiently.

David J.