[Offtopic] Inferencing (Was: Re: packages, not package systems (was Taking Ownership of Squeak(WAS Re: Python at Disney)))

Russell Allen russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Thu Mar 15 06:08:18 UTC 2001


Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> (Oo, it'd be fun if Squeak did mild inferencing to determine where to slot
> a change, and maybe give me a little popup for confirmation.)

I'll have you know that I had a academic paper rejected for a conference
just the other day because, amongst other reasons:

> There is no English word "inferencing". The English word is "inference"

So let this be a lesson to you.

Russell "paper reviewers will be first up against the wall when the
revolution comes" Allen

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