ithika: > Quoth Conrad Parker, nevermore, > > > > Besides, <tshirt>If it's not open source, it's not computer > > science</tshirt>. Science demands repeatable results, computer science > > demands literate programming. The solution is not to shy away from > > including code, or else the IP lawyers have won, science is banned and > > we get plunged into another Dark Age. > > I'm glad some people agree. I've been reading the reddit comments for > that blog post with a mixture of car-crash fascination and horror, where > the prevailing opinions are a mixture of: > > * computer scientists can't program, duh! > * computer scientists aren't in academia for the advancement of > knowledge, it's all about getting their name known > * you just want to ride on the coat-tails of other people's brilliance; > or, you're too lazy/stupid to do the work yourself > * if you can't recreate it from the description in the paper then it > shouldn't have been published > > The final point is the only one with any merit at all, and only then in > an ideal world. High level papers are not simple to translate into code, > even if the resulting code is quite simple. (How long did it take for > the monad to make it into programming?) > > It's sad that there's such a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism > even in computer science/software engineering. So I'd like to take the > opportunity to thank all the exciting academic work that gets published > with code that I can read (even better when they are mixed in one > literate document). And also all those contributors to The Monad Reader, > who help to bridge that gap for the rest of us.
I too read the comments with a sense of frustration. It is encouraging, somewhat, that in the original article, the Haskell paper-writing community was actually singled out as one that does tend to operate in an open source manner, and to actually produce code. Free the lambdas! -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
