Homeopathic Doses of Novelty

>My earlier point was that sometimes there are facets of a body of knowledge which become
"terms of art" in their field.  On the one hand one can argue that a requirement to use the
terms of art is elitist (who cares of he knows about the Clark-Wilson work if he describes the
concept adequately).

>But my point was that the omission does have some downsides.  In particular a reference to
such a fundamental term gives the reader the basis for finding out quite a bit more
information with very little additional effort.  It's omission would make it very difficult to
find this related work (no other simple terms or phrases are sufficiently unique to the
discussion to readily lead to it using search engines ... for example).

"terms of art" are pointers on the cognitive stack to vastly bigger amounts of information out
there on the research heap.
The indirection speeds up the process of absorbing new material if you're along the learning
curve already, but the complexity hurts the New Guy.
Tradeoffs: always, the tradeoffs.

The other point is that affixing one's name as the symbol identifying an idea is one form of
immortality for all the Gilgamesh characters out there.
Matt Mackall's  sig on the LKML: "Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time."