D Language Citation

Sumit Adhikari sumit.adhikari at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 05:39:13 PST 2013


Dear Russel,

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

I do not make rules, I follow them. I know my reviewers very well, so
better I be critical on what I put in.

Regards, Sumit


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 12:25 +0530, Sumit Adhikari wrote:
> > Dear User Community,
> >
> > This mail is in particular to the citation of D.
> >
> > D is extremely poorly cited (Yes this comes from a R&D guy). I searched
> and
> > searched (everywhere including IEEEXplore) and nothing comes in my hand!
> >
> > There are materials available on internet which are not peer reviewed and
> > hence I cannot use for Journal citation! It is like I have everything
> but I
> > cannot cite!
>
> Clearly URLs have to be considered ephemera as far as academic
> publication is concerned. However there are three classes of ephemera:
> 1. non-publishing websites; 2. publishing-related websites; and 3.
> publishing related archives.
>
> As an academic (admittedly a long time ago now), I would refuse to use
> or allow use of (as an editor of journal or conference proceedings) URLs
> in Category 1. However categories 2 and 3 are more reliable and so
> acceptable. Actually they are mandatory these days with the emerging
> academic publishing models. So where does this "ban" on using online
> material for citations come from? Are you self-censoring based on the
> notion of peer reviewed paper published journal?
>
> > It would be great idea as a beneficiary of D to publish for the future of
> > D. Please consider what I am saying :). Please publish.
>
> Walter Bright has published a number of papers in Dr Dobb's Journal and
> elsewhere, For example:
>
> http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/implementing-pure-functions/230700070
> http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-over-75/240158941
>
> Others have written and published in other places. There were some
> articles about D published in CVu, the journal of ACCU
> (http://www.accu.org) for example.
>
> And then there is:
>
> Alexandrescu A, The D Programming Language, Addison-Wesley, 2010.
>
> A fine publication, with certain publishing faults that lead to extreme
> collector pressure on value :-)
>
> The last point for now is that there is academic programming language
> research, and there is real world programming language development. The
> two are very different – believe me I have done both. So whilst Scala,
> which came from academia, has academic publications, Ceylon, Kotlin,
> Groovy, Ruby, Clojure, C++, D, Rust, JavaScript, Python, etc., etc. are
> developed almost entirely in a commercial or FOSS setting and so have no
> academic publications associated with them per se. D is not unique in
> this position.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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>


-- 
Sumit Adhikari,
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