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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: who first used "scruffy" and "neat"?
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In article <4e2th9$lkm@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Lonnie Chrisman <ldc+@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
>so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan So) wrote:
>>A question of curiosity.  Who first used the terms "scruffy" and "neat"?
>>And in what document?  How about "strong" and "weak"?
>
>Since I don't see a response yet, I'll take a stab.  The earliest use of
>"scruffy" and "neat" that comes to my mind was in David Chapman's "Planning
>for Conjunctive Goals", Artificial Intelligence 32:333-377, 1987.  "Weak"
>evidence for this being the earliest use is that he does not cite any earlier
>use of the terms, but perhaps someone else will correct me and give an 
>earlier citation.


I think it first appeared in a paper by Robert Abelson cqlled
something like "Constraint, Construal and Cognitive Science".  A long
time ago, but I don't recall the date.





