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authorBrian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>2009-12-15 10:16:14 +0000
committerNeil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>2009-12-18 00:53:34 +0000
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More spelling corrections and fixes for doubled words (e.g. "the the") -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd, Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ >From 7be02beedc739c32cce2c8ec8f4ac814c994a13f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix various documentation typos (spelling & doubled words)
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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Lisp.
Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Jim Blandy
suggested a new name for GEL: ``Guile''. Besides being a recursive
-acroymn, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
+acronym, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
``Planner'', ``Conniver'', and ``Schemer''. (The latter was truncated
to ``Scheme'' due to a 6-character file name limit on an old operating
system.) Finally, ``Guile'' suggests ``guy-ell'', or ``Guy L.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ applications and a more fully dynamic programming environment is still
with us today.
@node A Scheme of Many Maintainers
-@subsection A Scheme of Many Mantainers
+@subsection A Scheme of Many Maintainers
Surveying the field, it seems that Scheme implementations correspond
with their maintainers on an N-to-1 relationship. That is to say, that
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ maintainership of one individual.
Guile is atypical in this regard.
-Tom Lord maintaned Guile for its first year and a half or so,
+Tom Lord maintained Guile for its first year and a half or so,
corresponding to the end of 1994 through the middle of 1996. The
releases made in this time constitute an arc from SCM as a standalone
program to Guile as a reusable, embeddable library, but passing