There are two papers of interest - the original for historical purposes and the corrected one from which people learn. There are three ways you might do it: 1) publish both papers 2) publish the original paper with errata updates 3) publish the revised paper with notification of the corrections made.
Those who wish to learn from the paper are likely to be more numerous - so you must publish the corrected paper - way 2 is an unsatisfactory solution. However, you have way 1 or way 3 from which to choose. Don Watson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Devon McCormick" <[email protected]> To: "General forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought > In general, I agree with Harvey that it makes sense these days to do > things > the other way around. Hey, it's kind of like the "better ideas" of doing > away with order-of-operations or programming notationally rather than > lexically: you're bound to get resistance. > > However, in this case, particularly for my purpose of linking to the > original Turing Award lecture, I agree with Roger that keeping the > historical document "as-is" makes more sense. > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I want to be as faithful to the original as reasonable; >> therefore, I am sticking to the current errata arrangement. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Hahn, Harvey" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:33 >> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought >> To: General forum <[email protected]> >> >> > Roger Hui wrote: >> > |The wrong symbol for floor was in the original paper >> > |and is noted in the Errata section. >> > >> > Errata/Corrigenda sections were obviously necessary in print >> > publications because you can't change the printed page, but, for >> > pete'ssake, we're now in an online world, and distributable >> > documents should >> > have the correct versions within them. Why promulgate >> > errors?? There's >> > enough of that on the Internet already! For repristinators >> > who want to >> > recreate the original error-filled document for themselves, >> > reverse the >> > print-world process and have an "Errors Corrected" section (containing >> > the print errors) at the end. >> > ... > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
