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 There are materials available on internet which are not peer reviewed and 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. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder