I suppose that I shall have to write an article for the journal
entitled "Code 4 dealing gracefully with idiotic journal names".

Our software has exception code for "THE Journal",  but it still is a problem.


At 7:50 PM -0700 5/3/06, Roy Tennant wrote:
>Eric,
>Surely you must realize it was a vote. Once it was put to a vote,
>under specific rules, if the rules are followed (and they were as far
>as I know), then we're stuck with it, for good or evil.
>Unfortunately, I think poor Jeff Davis was quite against that choice.
>Roy
>
>On May 3, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:
>
>>>Here's the latest on the code4lib journal:
>>>
>>>"/lib/dev: A Journal for Library Programmers" won the journal name
>>>vote.  (See http://www.code4lib.org/node/96 for more details.)
>>
>>The idea of a journal name that contains punctuation in the title is
>>so breathtakingly idiotic that I can only assume that it is a
>>reference to the bug in the name of the computer language  C++


--

Eric Hellman, Director                            OCLC Openly
Informatics Division
[log in to unmask]                                    2 Broad St., Suite 208
tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216              Bloomfield, NJ 07003
http://www.openly.com/1cate/      1 Click Access To Everything