O.K. We are now allowed to put references in the text as opposed to in footnotes. Why can't we also have errata in the text? e.g.:
"...learning the language pays of (intended "off") in and outside . . " Don Watson ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Hui <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:37 pm Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought To: General forum <[email protected]> > If/when the question is asked, did the editor mess with > the text? I want the answer to be unequivocally no. > > There is an example in the paper which indicates which > way Ken himself would have gone. In section 5.4, > there was a quote from Professor Blaauw. > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm#5.4 > ...learning the language pays of in and outside > the field of computer design. > Obviously, it should have been "pays off". The way > Ken solved this problem, was: > ...learning the language pays of (sic) in and > outside > the field of computer design. > > By the way, I consider it the case that Ken worked > with one armed tied behind his back, or at least had > a couple of fingers tied together. Specifically, I believe > a large number of expressions would be slightly simpler > if the index origin were 0 instead of 1. And, as mentioned > several days ago, further simplifications obtain if he had > # instead of just rho. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don Watson <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 14:12 > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought > To: General forum <[email protected]> > > > 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
