www/philosophy stallman-mec-india.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/09/20 11:12:01

Modified files:
        philosophy     : stallman-mec-india.html 

Log message:
        Use <code> and <kbd> to make the if/while story clearer;
        replace single quotes with double quotes (or nothing).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.44&r2=1.45

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--- stallman-mec-india.html     19 Sep 2021 14:35:29 -0000      1.44
+++ stallman-mec-india.html     20 Sep 2021 15:12:01 -0000      1.45
@@ -764,22 +764,22 @@
 have definitions.  They do exactly what they are defined to do.</p>
 
 <p> And so there are many problems we don't have.  For instance, if we
-put an if statement inside of a while statement, we don't have to worry
-about whether the if statement can get enough power to run at the speed
+put an <code>if</code> statement inside of a <code>while</code> statement, we 
don't have to worry
+about whether the <code>if</code> statement can get enough power to run at the 
speed
 it's going to run.  We don't have to worry about whether it will run at
 a speed that generates radio frequency interference and induces wrong
 values in some other parts of the data.  We don't have to worry about
 whether it will loop at a speed that causes a resonance and eventually
-the if statement will vibrate against the while statement and one of them
+the <code>if</code> statement will vibrate against the <code>while</code> 
statement and one of them
 will crack.  
 <span class="gnun-split"></span>We don't have to worry that chemicals in the 
environment
-will get into the boundary between the if statement and the while
+will get into the boundary between the <code>if</code> statement and the 
<code>while</code>
 statement and corrode them, and cause a bad connection.  We don't have
 to worry that other chemicals will get on them and cause a short-circuit.
 We don't have to worry about whether the heat can be dissipated from this
-if statement through the surrounding while statement.  We don't have
-to worry about whether the while statement would cause so much voltage
-drop that the if statement won't function correctly.  When you look at
+<code>if</code> statement through the surrounding <code>while</code> 
statement.  We don't have
+to worry about whether the <code>while</code> statement would cause so much 
voltage
+drop that the <code>if</code> statement won't function correctly.  When you 
look at
 the value of a variable you don't have to worry about whether you've
 referenced that variable so many times that you exceed the fan-out limit.
 You don't have to worry about how much capacitance there is in a certain
@@ -805,20 +805,20 @@
 probably you can just fix some details and get it to work.</p>
 
 <p> There is another problem that we don't have to worry about:
-manufacturing of copies.  When we put this if statement inside the
-while statement, we don't have to worry about how the if statement is
-going to be inserted into the while statement as a copy is being built.
+manufacturing of copies.  When we put this <code>if</code> statement inside the
+<code>while</code> statement, we don't have to worry about how the 
<code>if</code> statement is
+going to be inserted into the <code>while</code> statement as a copy is being 
built.
 We don't have to worry either about making sure we have access to remove
-and replace this if statement if it should burn out.  So all we have to do
-is type &ldquo;copy&rdquo; and it's an all-purpose copy-anything facility.
+and replace this <code>if</code> statement if it should burn out.  So all we 
have to do
+is type <kbd>copy</kbd> and it's an all-purpose copy-anything facility.
 People making physical equipment and physical products, they can't do
 that, these things have to be built piece by piece each time.</p>
 
 <p> The result is that for them, the cost of designing a system of a
-certain complexity may be (gesturing) this much and the factory may
+certain complexity may be <span>[gesturing]</span> this much and the factory 
may
 take this much to set up.  So they have to deal with this much from the
 patent system.  It's a level of overhead they can live with.  For us,
-designing it may cost (gesturing) this much and manufacturing it may cost
+designing it may cost <span>[gesturing]</span> this much and manufacturing it 
may cost
 this much, so this much overhead from the patent system is crushing.</p>
 
 <p> Another way to look at it is that because we can&mdash;a few of
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@
 
   <dd><b>A</b>: Right, IBM favors software patents.  I had with trouble
   one, I couldn't hear all the words in your sentence.  I don't know
-  whether there was a &lsquo;not&rsquo; in it.  I couldn't tell, there are
+  whether there was a &ldquo;not&rdquo; in it.  I couldn't tell, there are
   two diametrically opposite meanings for what you just said, so what you
   can do is make sure that the situation is clear.  IBM favors software
   patents, IBM thinks it stands to gain a lot from software patents.  So
@@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@
   the official in charge of the agency that is opposed to software patents,
   I can put them in touch.</dd>
 
-<dt><b>Q</b>: Is there any country that said &lsquo;no&rsquo; to software
+<dt><b>Q</b>: Is there any country that said no to software
 patents?</dt>
 
   <dd><b>A</b>: Well, there are countries which don't have them, but it's
@@ -1787,11 +1787,11 @@
   together make very hard for me to make out the words.</dd>
 
 <dt><b>Q</b>: This question is not about patent or copyright or anything
-like that.  But this is one example what you said about&mdash;if
-statement and while statement&mdash;that you said something about the
+like that.  But this is one example what you said about&mdash;<code>if</code>
+statement and <code>while</code> statement&mdash;that you said something about 
the
 differences in the field of computer science and differences with other
 sciences, that is other engineering sciences.  You said that if I change
-something in the if loop that's if statement, there won't be any effect,
+something in the <code>if</code> loop that's <code>if</code> statement, there 
won't be any effect,
 that you said&hellip;</dt>
 
   <dd><b>A</b>: No I didn't say that.</dd>
@@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@
 <dt><b>Q</b>: Heating effect.  Heating&hellip;</dt>
 
   <dd><b>A</b>: Oh yes we don't have to worry about how much heat the
-  if statement&hellip;</dd>
+  <code>if</code> statement&hellip;</dd>
 
 <dt><b>Q</b>: Yeah, yeah, exactly.  Then what is it that cascading effect
 is?  If I change the structure of the loop, there will be an effect.</dt>
@@ -2167,7 +2167,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/09/19 14:35:29 $
+$Date: 2021/09/20 15:12:01 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
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