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Not notable organization. Extremely outdated and full of jargon. De-prodding comment seems to have nothing to do with the notability or lack thereof. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:37, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:37, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
ACM and IEEE Computer Society are the two top Computer Science professional societies in the world. ACM sponsors HOPL through its SIGPLAN special interest group. SIGPLAN sponsors most of the top professonal conferences in Programming Languages. I guess one could argue ACM is "not notable organization", but ACM sponsors the Turing Award, which is often called the Nobel Prize in CS. HOPL has indeed been an unusual conference series, it mixes CS professionals with historians to provide first-hand histories of some of the most important artifacts in our modern world. Some of the language names sound like jargon, but they form the foundation of everything that is computer/internet related. The material is not "out of date", but I did update the final presentation date of HOPL IV. Deleting this page will not destroy the history of these foundational technologies, but it will make it harder for new students of computers and history to find them. N2cjn (talk) 02:28, 9 January 2022 (UTC)n2cjn
- Delete: The UMN archives source provides useful information on the scope of the event. But there is no indication of notability or significance, based on the journal articles. Additionally, conferences of this kind tend to have at least a few reliable, independent sources from mass news media. Multi7001 (talk) 02:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. No independent in-depth sources, no article... In addition, including the whole line-up of speakers is undue, such information belongs on the conference's own website. --Randykitty (talk) 09:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)