IN the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the various ways of achieving parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses ...

Parallelism has sometimes been viewed as a rare and exotic subarea of computing, interesting but of little relevance to the average programmer. A study of trends in applications, computer architecture ...

WE saw in the preceding four parts of this series that the consistent use of parallel grammatical structures is the key to more readable, more forceful, and more polished sentences. We also learned ...