Talk:Curl (programming language)

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 18:49, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

How are all the languages, implementations of languages and frameworks under "See also" specifically related to Curl?--87.162.40.210 (talk) 23:44, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't think I would really say that any of those languages are especially related to Curl, although they may share some common features of interest. The JavaFX language is only related in that both Curl and JavaFX are part of RIA platforms. Cebarber (talk) 16:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Curl CAEDE for Android
The Android platform uses Curl to generate Javascript+HTML+CSS

Does it finally doom this language?

Is there ANY sign this MIT language could come to open domain where is probably belonged (the MIT spin-off was controversial at the time, was it not? )

Is there still a prospect of this language for China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and those parts of Africa where English is not the second language (Curl can be made very "second-language", i.e., non_English, friendly, through macros and user-defined formats) ??

G. Robert Shiplett 15:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Curl may out-last much-hyped Flex AIR and MS Silverlight
If Curl remains in Japan, the articles on AIR and Silverlight will start to look like the ad promotions on WP that tend to go with MS and Adobe "information". Java/FX received media attention, but appears to be vanishing. Since Curl is so widely used in so many financial institutions in the guise of Thomson-Reuters software for audit and risk management, its use in mission-critical applications may be greater than a number of frameworks with articles never slated for deletion on wikipedia - and frameworks which did not come from an MIT team of professors in CS. The original Curl pay-for-content model may be here long after Adobe AIR is gone.

G. Robert Shiplett 15:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

New versions and libraries
Since there have been so many new Curl opensource libraries and new Curl releases since Java/FX, why was there no proposal to delete that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX   ??

Has there been even a single major global corporation whose mission-critical software is still in Java/FX ? Ever was? Yet in just one major global financial sector alone, three of the top 4 corps -( huge global corps with offices in every major city and almost every minor US, AU, NZ and CDN city)) rely on Curl applications in the generation of their daily revenue through their principal billable business tasks on their employees laptops ... second only to their reliance on MS Excel. And that is just one of the global Curl niche markets in corps mentioned daily in BBC and CNN news.  And Java/FX ?  And then the banks, insurance companies ...  would we propose deleting the article on the PROLOG programming language?

What little known web language ever earned so many $$ on so few applications ? In time, it will be an historical oddity worthy of noting in the industry of hype. And some such facts deserve preservation in web encyclo's (confidentiality permitting.)

It was years before CINCOM Smalltalk allowed anyone to talk about their work at one major global bank - allowing professors and pundits to say that Smalltalk was dead (especially those outside USA.) But look at how that CINCOM bank customer fared in 2008 and after ...  per capita, in global corporations, which language pays its developers more than Smalltalk? (No, one US financial corp in Boston does not count - I said corporationS ). Make it easier: at any time since 1990, more than 100 senior developers solely writing in the language for mission-critical irreplacable applications world-wide for corp's mentioned in Forbes, BBC and CNN each week since CNN took off.

The story of Prolog CLP is as fascinating a case in the sociology and economics of corporate and military computing.

Would we have proposed deleting the article on ICON but keeping that on SNOBOL? Without the Freedom of Info act in USA, we could not show the budget for ICON development - and even then it could have easily been overlooked as the UNICON dialect. And had that article been deleted? (remember: wiki comes from ... Smalltalk. Apple iPhone Objective-C ... from Smalltalk.  Ruby from ... that same language USA professors say is no longer in use.  Ahem.  As Smalltalk evolves as Pharo, and as Visual at Instantiations, and as ...)

G. Robert Shiplett 16:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you're advocating in most of your message. If you think JavaFX or any other article should be deleted, you can nominate it at WP:AFD. -- Beland (talk) 00:32, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

need a license description in sidebar
The articles for D and XL both include licensing information in their sidebar (e.g., gpl, or proprietary).

That would be useful for Curl as well, because for some readers it would let them tell at a glance whether to keep reading. Son of eugene (talk) 03:59, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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Notability and Deletion -- surely some mistake?
I do not understand why this page has been nominated (again) for deletion -- there's a banner at the top of the talk page to say as much, but there appears to be no corresponding discussion to explain why.

Also, the page header template suggests that it doesn't meet Notability guidelines.

A colleague told me that a particular process uses Curl, so I followed the search link to Wikipedia to find out more, as I had not heard of Curl language before. Isn't that exactly what Wikipedia is for? I agree that the page content leaves very much to be desired, but deletion? No way!

--EdJogg (talk) 16:14, 14 July 2021 (UTC)