observations on rinse and repeat (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

Thanks. Accuracy is always appreciated.

Yes, reprints are quite likely. There was also a practice in that
particular period to cut and rearrange papers for different journals to
get credit for more published papers. I've found more than a handful of
articles that reproduced entire paragraphs or even sections of papers
under different titles--and that was back in the 1980s. Clustering is
now somewhat frowned upon, although there is more of it in some fields
than in others.

     VS-)

On 11/4/2011 3:28 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>>> http://goo.gl/h7RaV
>>> Tutorial: Human Factors in Software Development. By Bill Curtis.
>>> 1981 [confirmed]
>>> p. 213
>>>> For example, shampoo labels typically state: "Wet hair, apply
>>>> shampoo, rinse, and repeat." As it stands, this procedure creates an eternal loop, but it is doubtful we would find many bathers forever cycling through such a
> The full quote (and somewhat more accurate citation) is:
>
> "For example, shampoo labels typically state: "Wet hair, apply shampoo,
> rinse, and repeat." As it stands, this procedure creates an eternal
> loop, but it is doubtful we would find many bathers forever cycling
> through such a procedure."
>
> Miller, L. A.;  " Natural language programming: Styles, strategies, and
> contrasts" _IBM Systems Journal_
> Volume: 20 Issue: 2 Page(s): 184 - 215
>
> I suppose this article is reprinted in the volume cited above.

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