Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Ben Finney wrote: Curt writes: On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes wrote: Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van" is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da Vinci, Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido complained that Americans alway

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-18, Ben Finney wrote: >> > >> > Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The >> > "van" is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da >> > Vinci, Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido >> > complained that Americans always get his name wro

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Ben Finney
Curt writes: > On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes wrote: > > > > Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The > > "van" is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da > > Vinci, Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido > > complained that Americans alway

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van" is > part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da Vinci, > Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido complained that > Americans always get his name wrong. I've

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Dennis Lee Bieber, 17.06.2012 02:46: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:25:29 -0400, Terry Reedy > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> Thank you for the correction. I was going by an old book (1996) he >> co-wrote that just had 'Rossum' on the spine. I guess that must have >> been d

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/16/2012 5:01 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy: Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van"

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy: > Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python > Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van" is part of the family name, not a middle name.

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/15/2012 11:24 PM, Mark Livingstone wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? At present, I would use something like Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python Software Foundation; ht

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Ben Finney
Olmo Hernández Cuba writes: > Well, maybe something like: > > G. Van Rossum. The Python Language > Reference Manual. Network Theory Ltd., September 2003. Are you referencing material from that document? If so, go ahead and reference that document's URL. > In other languages I use, the prope

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
Or copy a citation from Guido: http://www.python.org/~guido/Publications.html Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Rich Webb
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:01:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: >On 16/06/2012 04:24, Mark Livingstone wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. >> >> Is there a preferred document etc to cite? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> MArkL > >The main website www.py

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
That's a rather vague question. What do you want to cite about python? If you're just mentioning python, that shouldn't warrant a citation, though a parenthetical note linking to python.org might be useful. The standard documentation should be acceptable, or possibly a link to the source code at

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/06/2012 04:24, Mark Livingstone wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? Thanks in advance, MArkL The main website www.python.org and possibly the sites for Jython, IronPython and PyPY? -- Cheers. Ma

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Olmo Hernández Cuba
Well, maybe something like: G. Van Rossum. The Python Language Reference Manual. Network Theory Ltd., September 2003. In other languages I use, the proper citation is obtained from the interpreter itself, and it points you to the language reference. Hope this helps. El Sat, 16 Jun 2012 1

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Alec Taylor
I think it's more like when you see articles with a passage like: The C programming language[1] or the C++ programming language[2] are both > examples of... > Are both easy to find the proper reference for. On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Mark Livingstone writes: > > > I

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
Mark Livingstone writes: > I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. > > Is there a preferred document etc to cite? I think you're best positioned to answer that. Python isn't a document, so what specifically are you citing it as? -- \ “A ‘No’ uttered from deepes

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Alec Taylor
Maybe quote the "Programming Python" book, since Guido wrote the forward? http://www.python.org/doc/essays/foreword2/ On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Mark Livingstone wrote: > Hello! > > I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. > > Is there a preferred document etc to c

Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Livingstone
Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? Thanks in advance, MArkL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list