Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin (Really: CACM)
Message-ID: <3175@phri.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 04:28:09 GMT
References: <1243@orcisi.UUCP> <1244@orcisi.UUCP> <1246@orcisi.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <1246@orcisi.UUCP> michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
| > drivel in a supposedly well-respected academic journal?
| 
| Didn't CACM cease being a "well-repected academic journal" about five
| years ago when it decided that it needed to appeal to a wider audience?

	Hence the "supposedly".  Personally, I find a strong temporal
correlation between the decline in the academic value of CACM and the
appearance of 4-color covers.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
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