Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Picky (programming language)

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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)
 * Unlike article discussions (which take place in Talk pages), deletion discussions (AfD) normally take place in the AfD page created for the article (this one is here: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Picky_(programming_language)). AfD talk pages aren't usually used. Normally people append their opinion to the bottom of the page. I've copied your response over for you as an example. &#8213;  Padenton &#124;&#9993;  20:11, 31 March 2015 (UTC)