Talk:History of Programming Languages (conference)

"Brief Histories" outside the scope of this article?

This article is specifically about the ACM HOPL conferences. The accepted papers for the upcoming HOPL III are appropriate, but I don't think the "Brief History" sections should be here unless they directly relate to the conference or procedings. In my opinion, those sections should be moved to history of programming languages instead. --IanOsgood 17:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has suggested that some of the HOPL page content be merged into the history of programming languages page. I, for one, dislike this idea. HOPL is a unique conference in that it goes into depth on important languages (once every 15 years). As part of the preparation for HOPL III, the program committee is trying to create a community view of the history of the classes of languages covered by the specific papers in HOPL III. Hence the history material in the HOPL III page is not a fully general history, rather it concentrates on material associated with the specific content to be in the conference. We would like the experiment to continue here on Wikipedia and it would make little sense to have that happen in the context of a general purpose page. --n2cjn

I see, you are using the HOPL page as a public workspace, which will eventually be cleaned up. I'm fine with that, but I worry that some other wikipedian might come along and wipe it, citing WP:NOT#WEBSPACE. You might want to use a different public wiki for this task. One possibility is WikiWikiWeb, since one of its interests is the c2:InformalHistoryOfProgrammingIdeas. --IanOsgood 20:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]