Factor has lots of influences. For example, the compiler is influenced
by SBCL and its predecessor, CMUCL. The interactive environment is
also influenced by many previous interactive environments. We talk
about the compiler's design and the features and implementation of
those, and mention them in the introduction as important features, but
we don't have enough room to cite things for them, because we just
have 12 pages! Anyway, what you did for the dataflow combinators was
nice, but they and fry were not very useful until they were made
efficient and until fry was generalized to what it is now. I don't
think that the dataflow combinators are the most important part of the
paper, but they're essential for understanding code written in Factor,
so they must be discussed. For papers, not every contributor can be an
author, and some contributors must just be mentioned in the
acknowledgments.

I'll try to remove claims that the dataflow combinators are original
(this is really just a matter of wording, and deleting that bullet
point from the introduction) and resubmit the paper, but I'm not sure
whether they'll accept a resubmition. In any case, you're not going to
be an author of the paper.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eduardo Cavazos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
>  > Factor is the work of many people, not all of which are coauthors of
> the paper
>
> This is true. However, the subject of my note is the paper specifically,
> not the Factor project. The paper's introduction states:
>
>   This paper contributes the following:
>
>  · New abstractions for managing the flow of data in
>    stack-based languages
>
> To publish this and sections 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 under the three listed
> authors is plagiarism.
>
>  > I didn't invite you
>  > to be a coauthor because you're no longer active in the project, and I
>  > assumed you wouldn't be interested.
>
> Proper citations don't have expiration dates.
>
> I've never published a paper in a journal before so I'm not familiar
> with the proper academic etiquette. However, my understanding is that if
> one person does the work and another person writes the paper, they are
> both listed as authors.
>
> Ed
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