Re: Item for the guidelines
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Justin B Rye (jbr@edlug.org.uk):
> > Whoah! There's no such thing as "a" software. It's a non-count
> > noun, like hardware, or information. You mean "a program" or "an
> > application".
>
> Let's reword this, then:
>
> Database server software is a program that handles data and serves
> it....
Sorry, that has a similar problem. That "is" equates the uncountable
"software" with the single "a program".
How about:
Database server software handles data and serves it....
or:
Database servers are programs that handle data and serve it...
> I don't feel like calling MySQL "program" or "application"....
So use the first alternative above (although I don't see why not).
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