Parody of Darcs patch theory from 1981
I was looking through my old copy of "The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle, and came across the entry for Stepwise Refinement. I thought "I've seen this before: this is a parody of Darcs patch theory". It included the Null patch, chains of patches, inverse patches, and pseudo-inverse patches. But the book was published in 1981. I've got the pages scanned, but I can't upload them to Wikimedia because they are still in copyright. However I'm quite sure that limited distribution would fall into "fair use" (non-commercial, small part of work, no impact on market, academic relevance). The total file size is about 520kBytes. Assuming people would like to see them, does anyone have any ideas beyond "email to requestors"? Paul.
Does it start with "Any sequence of KLUDGES, not necessarily distinct or finite..."? If so, it can be found in "The Computer Contradictionary", by the same author, and probably illegal copy of the last book can be found in the net somewhere. On 2 Mar 2008, at 19:53, Paul Johnson wrote:
I was looking through my old copy of "The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle, and came across the entry for Stepwise Refinement. I thought "I've seen this before: this is a parody of Darcs patch theory". It included the Null patch, chains of patches, inverse patches, and pseudo-inverse patches. But the book was published in 1981.
I've got the pages scanned, but I can't upload them to Wikimedia because they are still in copyright. However I'm quite sure that limited distribution would fall into "fair use" (non-commercial, small part of work, no impact on market, academic relevance). The total file size is about 520kBytes. Assuming people would like to see them, does anyone have any ideas beyond "email to requestors"?
Paul.
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Does it start with "Any sequence of KLUDGES, not necessarily distinct or finite..."? If so, it can be found in "The Computer Contradictionary", by the same author, and probably illegal copy of the last book can be found in the net somewhere. Indeed. In fact I'm not even sure its illegal. Its at http://www.scribd.com/doc/264064/The-Computer-Contradictionary page
Miguel Mitrofanov wrote: 202. The typography has been considerably munged (tildes replaced by hyphens mostly), but you can still get a good idea of what its saying.
On 3/2/08, Paul Johnson
I was looking through my old copy of "The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle, and came across the entry for Stepwise Refinement. I thought "I've seen this before: this is a parody of Darcs patch theory". It included the Null patch, chains of patches, inverse patches, and pseudo-inverse patches. But the book was published in 1981.
I've got the pages scanned, but I can't upload them to Wikimedia because they are still in copyright. However I'm quite sure that limited distribution would fall into "fair use" (non-commercial, small part of work, no impact on market, academic relevance). The total file size is about 520kBytes. Assuming people would like to see them, does anyone have any ideas beyond "email to requestors"?
I would be entertained, but perhaps this might be more on-topic on the darcs-users mailing list (and interested parties might be more likely to see it there, since not everyone can keep up with haskell-cafe) :-) Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin
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