RE: [FWP] Constants as array refs

["Larry Rosler" <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: John Porter [mailto:jdporter@min.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 13:33
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: Re: [FWP] Constants as array refs
>
> Jeff Pinyan wrote:
> > Yay.  I feel like I helped make a difference today. :)  Oh, and see
my
> > post about sorting, Schwartzian transforms, and Guttman-Rosler
transforms,
> > at perlguru.com:
http://www.perlguru.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/000208.shtml
>
> I'd like to know how the meme got started, of calling that technique
> "the Guttman-Rosler Transform".  I notice Greg B. called it that on
> PerlfaqPrime, too.

It was suggested by Abigail in comp.lang.perl.misc, and adopted by
acclamation.

> As has been mentioned many times in the past, there is no transform
> there.  In fact the technique is so basic -- much more so than the
> ST -- that it does not need a proper name.  However, if one insists
> on attaching someone's name(s) to it, it should at least include
> Michal Rutka.

Michal Rutka is given due credit in our paper.

Often, popular memes are identified by the names of their popularizers,
rather than their originators.  Some other examples:

Schwartz Transform, first described by Tom Christiansen.

In contract bridge, Stayman Convention, invented by George Rapee.

> print "</rant>";
> goto &fwp;

Would you be ranting were it named the Guttman-Porter-Rosler Transform,
as it well might have been?

--
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com



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