Erik Meijer writes:
> Hello Haskell Lovers,
>
> The proceedings of the Haskell Workshop 1999 are now available online in PDF
> format via my homepage <http://www.cs.uu.nl/~erik> ==> HaskellWorkshop or
> via the departemental Technical Reports repository
> <http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/research/publication/TechRep.html>.
>
> @PROCEEDINGS{HaskellWorkshop1999
> , TITLE="Proceedings of the 1999 Haskell Workshop"
> , YEAR="1999"
> , EDITOR="Erik Meijer"
> , SERIES="Technical Reports"
> , ORGANISATION="Utrecht University Department of Computer Science"
> , NUMBER="UU-CS-1999-28"
> , NOTE="ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/RUU/CS/techreps/CS-1999/1999-28.pdf"
> }
Nice to be able to get the workshop proceedings electronically. For those of us
not in a university it makes a lot of difference. I have memories of missing out
on quite a few interesting Haskell workshops etc. that didn't seem to show up
online.
However some people are never satisfied, and I don't like the name
"1999-28.ps.gz". This is the 144th functional programming paper or similar that
I have downloaded, and becomes hard to tell which is which from the
filename. The first thing I did is rename it to "haskell-workshop-1999.ps.gz",
which is essentially what I do with most downloaded papers. The problem with
this is that it is then difficult to tell whether I already have a particular
paper without downloading it to check the title. Nor could I easily put my cache
of papers online as a mirror for people Down Under, since no-one could tell
which papers they were mirrors of. Note that the name above is fairly typical -
a lot of papers are called TR-22 or POPL-98 or MMFP (the latter being one of the
more explanatory ones).
Would it be reasonable to give more descriptive names to these files (even if
they need to be long) ? And if some people are still cursed with an OS that
cannot handle long filenames, then symbolic links could be used to make a
shorter name available as well.
I am thinking of using symlinks myself, instead of renaming the downloaded
papers, but with such short names there is a substantial chance of collision.
Tim
