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 <rus...@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 There are materials available on internet which are not peer reviewed and 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. > > ============================================================================= > 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 > > -- Sumit Adhikari,