[seanmcdirmid]

arXiv isn’t a great cite. It’s like “technical report”, and it doesn’t really count for points so much as it is a courtesy provided to the reader (well, the only real points that should matter).

I once dug out the invention of IDE code completion coming from a structured programming system called Alice Pascal from the mid 80s via a magazine article. That was a fun investigation, but no one really cared.

[auggierose]

Sounds interesting, maybe write a paper about it?

[seanmcdirmid]

I did! Onward 2010 I think. It was a fun paper. Escape from the maze of twisty classes.

[sbierwagen]

2012! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/escape-...