[ On Friday, September 15, 2000 at 23:04:40 (+0800), Mark Harrison wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: What is Cederqvist?
>
> It does not. I'm the author of 3 books, and it is actually quite pleasant
> to know that you've written a book that is well enough received to
> become known by your name.
Like I said, it would depend on who you are.... And I don't speak for
Per Cederqvist either, but I have written at least a few small
paragraphs in the CVS manual.
So which one of your books is "The Harrison" anyway?
Not to degrade any of your books, but that makes it sounds more like a
wrestling move or something else physical....
There's also still the other non-trivial issue of just who actually
wrote whatever anyone might be referring to if they refer to the CVS
manual as if it is the initial author of the first version. For example
you'd be on a lot thinner ice if you referred to "TCP/IP Illustrated,
Volume 2: The Implementation" by Gary R. Wright and W. Richard Stevens
as "The Stevens" (or even in the more proper way as "Stevens says").
You can only do that for vol.1 and vol.3. In the same way people don't
call "The C Programming Language" "The Ritchie", but rather "K&R".
(And I'm not thinking of myself here either -- my contribution to the
manual is very tiny in comparison.)
Though I haven't managed to get a working connection that'll let me run
"cvs annotate" on the manual source, I'm reasonably certain that by now
it would only be fair to refer to the authors of the manual at least as
"Cederqvist et al".
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