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I wonder if this is similar reasons to why lots of CS papers seem to never have the date on?

• butlerm 5y ago
  Some academic types seem to believe that no paper should ever bear a date other than the date of formal publication. Not quite sure why that is, the date of a draft seems like incredibly helpful information to me.
  • hobofan 5y ago
    Yes, especially when trying to reconstruct the timeline and context of related research, to help understand the methodology and implicit (lack of) reasoning. With time context one can often go from "why would they do it like that?" to, "given that X wasn't discovered at the time, it makes sense that they did it like that".