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No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in
by jermberj 19d ago
No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in OP is like 15 pages.
- vulcan01 19d agoHis thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.
- derefr 19d agoYes, but the other things in the OP list aren't theses, they're journal papers.
- throwaway219450 19d agoI would say 300 is more than slightly longer. Varies by institution and style, but 100k words, 4-5 collated papers, 100-150 pages maximum are quite common. I would be concerned as an examiner if this came across my desk, more so if I read the colophon where the author comments that they intended to write their own typesetting system, before reading Knuth and wisely concluding that they were unlikely to do anything better than TeX. Top tier yak shaving there.
- moritz 19d agoOne can skip the Erlang-specific things/the description of the programming language. Just the first 2 chapters (~30p) + the Conclusion (~10p) contain a lot of useful food for thought.