Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ana (programming language)


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Vozul (talk) 15:13, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Ana (programming language)

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Withdrawn by nominator Issues with verifiability and notability have been resolved. Vozul (talk) 15:13, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing and Software. Vozul (talk) 02:37, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

I don't believe it fails WP:GNG. Ana is notable among a significant fraction of solar physicists, a field that is eminently notable itself, and is used by an (admittedly now small) number of them. On the other hand, other languages that served a niche market and are now never used (such as Logo (programming language)) are also notable. Ana is notable in the context of IDL (programming language) history, as it is the only known fork of that language that survives from the time when IDL was freely distributed under a proto-open-source license. One bottom-up clone of IDL, Gnu Data Language, is known to exist; IDL, GDL, and Ana form a unique group of vectorized data analysis languages based primarily on FORTRAN, but interpreted and suitable for performing vectorized operations on large data sets. IDL and GDL are widely used to this day throughout the space science community, and though Ana seems to have largely faded in recent years it formed a major part of the shift, in the late 20th Century, toward vectorized high level languages for scientific use.

The article certainly fails WP:SOURCES, but that is a good reason for it to be fixed, not for it to be deleted entirely. 216.147.124.46 (talk) 03:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Actually that was me Zowie (talk) 03:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC) -- my editing skills are a bit rusty and I forgot to log in.


 * OK, I stepped in and added a couple of references to key papers: the Title 1989 paper that (in addition to describing several granulation results and introducing subsonic filtering) showed Ana's versatility; and the Hurlburt et al. 1997 paper that introduced the TRACE Image Viewer.  Hopefully that helps with WP:SOURCES as well. Zowie (talk) 03:39, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


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