Actually, I am not sure I would agree. For example, there are quite a few publications on Scala but most of the academic publications are about something; so, the semantics of it's type system, or the blending of function and OO or so on. So, which should you cite? Well, you could pick the language spec, of course, and scala has a very nice one (well, long anyway, haven't read it). But even this is about the semantics of the language, and not Scala as in "I used Scala to do this" which is about the language, the runtime and the tool chain.
The idea that you can't cite websites is a conceit that ensures that academics continue to spend a 1000s of pounds a paper on puplication costs, when you can achieve much the same with a blog, some metadata and archive.org. Ah, that was good, I feel better now! Phil Christopher Small <metasoar...@gmail.com> writes: > I have never had to cite Clojure, but I have cited other software packages > that didn't have publications. In general, if there is an actual academic > publication, it's best to cite that. Frequently there isn't of course, and > in those cases I've cited the web address. > > Cheers > > Chris > > > > On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:19:29 AM UTC-7, Phillip Lord wrote: >> >> >> Cite the URL. It's the correct identifier, it's got the relevant data on >> it, and it's archived in archive.org. >> >> If the journal editor or other academic tells you that you need a >> "proper" academic reference, just ignore them, because they are wrong. >> >> Phil >> >> <vra...@gmail.com <javascript:>> writes: >> >> > For the purposes of academic publications (in areas well outside of >> SIGPLAN >> > and such), are there any preferred citations for Clojure and EDN? Or >> could >> > a recommendation for a citation for both (especially EDN) be proposed if >> > there isn't one currently? >> -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
