--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] how to cite the Pure Data in a research paper To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at, "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 8:32 PM On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
That's true, especially for a name like "ChucK", which
as far as I've seen, has been consistently spelled with that capital "K" in research papers where it's turned up.
OTOH, the name ChucK is more distinctive *because* of the extra uppercase.
On another note, I think Desire Data should be renamed
:) Data just for the fun that would happen when someone tries to type that name into ms word.
Sorry, could you please explain the joke. I don't know anything MS Word does.
If I cared about that kind of pranks, I'd be more inclined to call a piece of software «that software» (all lowercase, without the doublequotes, no trademark symbol) and watch the trouble that ensues. But that's quite hypothetical. In reality, there is already enough trouble arising from uncovering ordinary everyday confusion, that there's nothing that I'd want to actually add to the mess.
Well, it's probably good that you're not inclined to that kind of prank because the example you give has no specific association with pd, dsp, or anything else that would be meaningful to anyone using the software.
If the only think about the name ChucK was the fact that it
looks distinctive, I think that would be just as lame as your example
above. If you look at the ChucK faq, you'll see a nice joke as to the
origin of the name. Once you get the joke, you also get some
information about a detail of the ChucK language.
I was going for :) associating with the word "desire" from dd, but I guess that's streching the meaning of the smiley a little bit. Oh, and it turns into an actual smily icon in MS word.
-Jonathan
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