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"WHY ELSE IS THIS COOL?" seems a very casual heading for an academic article.
by sambeau 16y ago
"WHY ELSE IS THIS COOL?" seems a very casual heading for an academic article.
- pa7 16y agothought exactly the same. define a "cool" way of doing things
- _delirium 16y agoIt looks like it was a workshop paper, from the 7th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures. I don't know much about that particular workshop, but workshops often aim for a more informal atmosphere, since one of their main roles is fostering discussion (incl. of works in progress) and bringing communities of researchers together to discuss things.
- chwahoo 16y agoI like it when academic papers include some personality or touches of informality (in headings or examples for example), as long as the required rigor is not sacrificed elsewhere. Now "why else is his cool?" is probably a bit further than I go.
- tripzilch 16y agoI dig--if you're going to use an informal expression and risk being completely dated within half a decade, why not pre-empt the retro wave with WHY ELSE IS THIS GROOVY?