On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Names are not something you can argue about or that you can "improve". Pd's author called it "Pure Data" and "Pd", so in a scientific paper I would always use these two names/spellings and I'd consider everything else a research negligence by the paper's author. In casual communication like here of course there is more freedom possible.
By a strange coïncidence, yesterday night, Carmen brought to my attention the existence of this scientific article about the epidemiology of zombies... The author claims to be named «Robert Smith?», question-mark included. For something that people can't argue about or «improve», this guy's name used up considerable amounts of ink and serious braintime... in *several* newspapers' style-guide committees. And in the end, there was no consensus.
http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/cover.jpg http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/684873 http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/
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