[Python-ideas] Add citation() to site.py

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 07:31:40PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > These questions around reproducibility/replicability are also
> > extremely hot topics in science right now... not clear how it will all
> > play out, but I think it's safe to say that there are a lot of
> > scientists who think recording and communicating exact environments is
> > very valuable.
> 
> 
> "In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to
> be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's
> programs, bugs included." -- Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975

I'm reminded of this quote from William H. Press, et al, "Numerical 
Recipes in Pascal":

"If all scientific papers whose results are in doubt because of bad 
Randoms were to disappear from library shelves, there would be a gap on 
each shelf about as big as your fist."



-- 
Steve