Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-18 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-18, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like da Vinci, Leonardo or von Sydow, Max. On one occasion Guido complained that Americans always get his name

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-18 Thread Ethan Furman
Ben Finney wrote: Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like da Vinci, Leonardo or von Sydow, Max. On one occasion Guido complained

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Dennis Lee Bieber, 17.06.2012 02:46: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:25:29 -0400, Terry Reedy declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Thank you for the correction. I was going by an old book (1996) he co-wrote that just had 'Rossum' on the spine. I guess that must have been done

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like da Vinci, Leonardo or von Sydow, Max. On one occasion Guido complained that Americans always get his name wrong.

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Ben Finney
Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like da Vinci, Leonardo or von Sydow, Max. On one occasion Guido complained that

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Olmo Hernández Cuba
Well, maybe something like: G. Van Rossum. The Python Language Reference Manual. Network Theory Ltd., September 2003. In other languages I use, the proper citation is obtained from the interpreter itself, and it points you to the language reference. Hope this helps. El Sat, 16 Jun 2012

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/06/2012 04:24, Mark Livingstone wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? Thanks in advance, MArkL The main website www.python.org and possibly the sites for Jython, IronPython and PyPY? -- Cheers.

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
That's a rather vague question. What do you want to cite about python? If you're just mentioning python, that shouldn't warrant a citation, though a parenthetical note linking to python.org might be useful. The standard documentation should be acceptable, or possibly a link to the source code at

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Rich Webb
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:01:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 16/06/2012 04:24, Mark Livingstone wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? Thanks in advance, MArkL The main website

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
Or copy a citation from Guido: http://www.python.org/~guido/Publications.html Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Ben Finney
Olmo Hernández Cuba olmo.hernandez-c...@gmx.es writes: Well, maybe something like: G. Van Rossum. The Python Language Reference Manual. Network Theory Ltd., September 2003. Are you referencing material from that document? If so, go ahead and reference that document's URL. In other

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/15/2012 11:24 PM, Mark Livingstone wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? At present, I would use something like Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python Software Foundation;

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy: Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/16/2012 5:01 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy: Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html Actually it's van Rossum, Guido, not Rossum, Guido van. The van is

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Alec Taylor
Maybe quote the Programming Python book, since Guido wrote the forward? http://www.python.org/doc/essays/foreword2/ On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com writes: I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing. Is there a preferred document etc to cite? I think you're best positioned to answer that. Python isn't a document, so what specifically are you citing it as? -- \ “A

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-15 Thread Alec Taylor
I think it's more like when you see articles with a passage like: The C programming language[1] or the C++ programming language[2] are both examples of... Are both easy to find the proper reference for. On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.auwrote: Mark