Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Change strange metaphor from Rome to Eiffel Tower #162

Open
wants to merge 3 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from

Conversation

banflam
Copy link

@banflam banflam commented Feb 3, 2024

In the "Introduction to Compilers" section there is a line:

But Rome wasn’t built in a day … and neither is any serious software.

However, the photo attached is a cool photo of the Eiffel Tower under construction.

I changed the reference to "Rome" to the Eiffel Tower to better make the point and remove this inconsistency.

@pdarragh
Copy link
Contributor

pdarragh commented Feb 3, 2024

The phrase "Rome wasn't built in a day" is an established idiom in English, so I think altering the text doesn't make sense. Unfortunately, we have no photographs of the construction of Rome, so we settled for some other large-scale project. That the text and image don't exactly align is unideal but also not terribly critical, in my opinion, but I do appreciate the thought!

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants