]> granicus.if.org Git - fortune-mod/commitdiff
Correct some broken grammar / spelling / syntax / etc.
authorShlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Thu, 5 Nov 2020 15:11:58 +0000 (17:11 +0200)
committerShlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Thu, 5 Nov 2020 15:11:58 +0000 (17:11 +0200)
See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=english+grammar&ia=web ;
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=english+spelling&ia=web and for the lighter side:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

* https://shlomif.livejournal.com/53966.html

* http://i.imgur.com/HL1ZR.jpg .

README.md

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@@ -92,15 +92,19 @@ The answer has several parts:
 
 First of all note that according to [the wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29)
 the original fortune was created in 1979, before the first version of perl was
-released (or python, ruby or Lua which came later) which followed and when UNIX-running
-computers were more underpowered.
+released in 1987, or python, ruby or Lua which were released later, and when UNIX-running
+computers were more underpowered than they are today.
 
 Secondly, you can find some reimplementations of fortune here:
 
 * [perl](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/PerlPowerTools/bin/fortune)
 * [python](https://github.com/bmc/fortune)
 
-Thirdly, most of the value (and hard disk consumption) of the tarball is in the
+You may be able to get them to work with the data files of fortune-mod and
+other fortune collections, but note that we have not closely reviewed their
+source codes.
+
+Thirdly, most of the value (and relative data size) of the tarball is in the
 quotes collection.
 
 Fourthly, a native executable may still give a [better user experience](https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/)