Thanks, I've made some changes based on what you said.

Dan

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Harold Hausman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The paper appears interesting, valuable, and for the most part well
> written. I only had time to look over the first 5 pages this morning,
> but perhaps some of these notes will be helpful as you polish the
> paper... If this is useful I can try to look at the rest later.
>
> In the abstract: "Factor's metaprogramming features have allowed it to
> implement..." The word "it" here is weird, what is "it" referring to?
> Factor? Did Factor implement anything? Perhaps "us" would be better?
> Or just rewrite the whole sentence.
>
> In the introduction: "It was originally conceived as an experiment to
> create ... which is ...", mixing 'was' and 'is' like this is bad. Are
> we in the past or present tense?
>
> "One of our goals is to make Factor suitable for development of larger
> applications, ..." replace with: "The inclusion of a robust module
> system makes Factor suitable for the development of larger
> applications"
>
> "Factor has extensive support for low-level..." This sentence is a
> run-on. Split it into at least two separate sentences. Perhaps at "...
> C and other languages. This allows for ..."
>
> "A system for staged metaprogramming, offering flexibility and ease of
> use" replace with "A flexible and easy to use staged metaprogramming
> system.
>
> Figures 1 and 2 are placed very goofily at the top of page two,
> uncheck noob in MacTex or pass -no-noob to LaTex. ;)
>
> "(cite something about row polymorphism)" <-- Make sure you actually do this.
>
> It's unfortunate that figure 6 appears on a different page than the
> description of what it's doing.
>
> In Lexical Variables: "low rate of use" is weird, maybe "infrequent
> use" would be better?
>
> In Object System: "(methods)" replace with "..., called methods, ..."
>
> Regards,
> -Harold
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