--- On Thu, 19/11/09, Roy Wada wrote:
> Anyone interested in presenting their programs as a serious
> academic work should give serious considerations to including a
> citation and a paragraph or two documenting the origins of
> ideas that led to the creation of that program.
That is an interesting point, how to cite code borrowed from
another program? I tend to use a three methods. If the
borrowing is really extensive I tend to contract the other
person and discuss it, typically sugesting that the other person
can be a co-author. Than for less extensive contributions I
tend to use a section in the help file called acknowledgements,
and finaly for minor but still noteworthy technical tricks I
sometimes use comments in the code.
I think I mostly came up with this system by copying the behavior
of other members of this comunity, but I can't remember reading
anything about it.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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