Referencing Livecode

[David V Glasgow]

Of course that is completely true for academic content!  This ain’t that.

In the paper I simply state that all text searching, manipulation and aggregation was achieved using Livecode scripts, with a footnote to a brief description and link to … 

Go on.  Ask your wife.  That is how it’s done. (unless you used R, or Python, which are celebrities needing no explanation or external link)



Best Wishes,

David Glasgow


> On 17 Jun 2022, at 9:57 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> From what I know (my wife is a senior academic at a university) references
> to Wikipedia pages are academic suicide, fail, go straight to jail, do not
> pass GO, do not collect 200 smackers, and you get the picture.
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, 11:47 David V Glasgow via use-livecode, <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On 16 Jun 2022, at 9:08 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is there a reason not to use the LC site URL, either alone or in
>> addition to the Wikipedia one?
>> 
>> The https://livecode.com landing page is rather sparse, and focussed on
>> drawing customers in rather than conveying anything about text processing,
>> or obvious links to information on text processing.  No criticism of that
>> at all.  It’s a commercial site.
>> 
>> Wiki page has the disadvantage of a banner warning about link rot, but the
>> advantage of lots of information presented in a more academic and neutral
>> style.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Re: the errors, they look like examples of functions that would return
>> "false" but I haven't seen them in context.
>>> --
>> 
>> They do, don’t they.  From memory, that wasn’t the context though.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> David G
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