Also, in physics at least, it seems like at some point in the 80s, the writing in academic papers became much worse than before. When I had to (had the pleasur

Also, in physics at least, it seems like at some point in the 80s, the writing in academic papers became much worse than before. When I had to (had the pleasure to) read some older papers, it was like they were from a different genre. They were clear and pleasant to read. Maybe it was before academics were measured by "hard numbers" (the academic version of PageRank - resulting in link farms) that some lazy fools made up.