Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Picky (programming language)


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The result was delete. no evidence provided this meets any inclusion guideline and COI article Spartaz Humbug! 07:04, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Picky (programming language)

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Unnotable programming language. Fails WP:GNG, WP:NSOFT &#8213; Padenton &#124;&#9993;  15:07, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America1000 16:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I am sincerely surprised and alarmed by the nomination for deletion of a young, non-profit, free (as in beer and as in freedom) software project for education... just because it's not popular yet (i.e. notable).

First of all, this is not self-promotion. We work for a public institution and we are not selling anything. Picky is a free software project made for our students. 400+ students/year use this language to learn the basic principles of programming.

Note that the language is very young and it's still on development (that is, it's not a dead project). This year, we developed a new compiler written in Go (the Google language). In addition, we included a new graphics library. The tools (compiler, runtime) are completely functional for Linux, OSX, Windows and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Very few others can claim the same.

An academic paper is currently under review to be published in a CS education journal. Moreover, several institutions (from Spain and UK) have shown interest in the language, but it's too soon to expect them to adopt it (obviously).

Please consider the deletion. Picky is an alternative to classic languages and it would be interesting for other CS101 teachers.

Enrique.soriano (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete No indication this language is used outside of one course at one university. —Ruud 11:52, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment If the result is deletion, please consider WP:ATD-I or moving this page to the user space or page where it can be improved by him and latter re-instated as a page when notability is satisfied, as there is some evidence that it will be but not now. Aways think about the harm of losing an editor when deleting an article. He seems to have put some effort int this. I see no harm in keeping it though. Caroliano (talk) 02:21, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nakon  07:11, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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