Guys,
Let me clarify a couple of things.
I do not want to be listed as an author on the paper. What I meant in my
last note is that, if the dataflow combinators and partial application
syntax are presented as they are:
New abstractions for managing the flow of data in
stack-based languages
two original contributions
We propose a syntax for the construction of point-free
closures in a stack-based language.
i.e. as somehow (which I don't think they are) contrbutions to the
literature or in anyway new results, then proper attribution is
required, since they're my contrbutions to Factor.
I agree that these topics need to be introduced so that examples in the
paper can be understood. The problem that I see is that they are being
presented as more than just incidental syntax and mechanism.
They are not "new abstractions". I'd like to think that the referees
would catch this.
Partial application and the combinators are not
"original contributions". Well, if I were writing the paper, I certainly
wouldn't go that far in describing my work. If this wording gets
through, it's going to set a precedent that all one needs to do is port
an old idea to a "concatenative language" and you can get published and
claim new results.
Finally, the third excerpt above, "we propose a syntax ..." is inacurate
as long as my name isn't on the authors list. So I suggest changing this
part of the paper.
Oh yeah, I also designed Factor's module system:
http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2006/12/factor-module-system-considered.html
http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2007/05/work-begins-on-new-module-system.html
however, at least that's not presented as a New Kind of Feature in the
paper.
Ed
First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted
to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so
important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
-- William James. Pragmatism, lecture 6. 1907
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