Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SCAR (programming language) (2nd nomination)
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Been some time since the prev AfD which resulted in no consensus.
I bring this issue up again because I believe that this program has no notability outside of RuneScape cheating (which, again, is not particularly notable in and of it self)
The claim that SCAR has uses outside of RuneScape is heavily debatable. "SCAR programming" has 3 hits on Google News, none of which appear to have anything to do with the program. The claim of number of users and usability (and how it gets people into programming) are unverifiable and irrelevant respectively. The getting people into programming argument could be made for a number of languages, HTML, JS, PHP, BASIC, shell, etc. all could be used to introduce someone to basic programming theory, i.e., if-then-else, loops.
In addition, the page lacks reliable sources to establish notability.
Although I am not particularly familiar with the SCAR CDE, nor Pascal, I would like to bring up what StephenP123 (talk · contribs) said in this diff.
I'd also like to bring up this quote:
SCAR's syntax and structure lie very close to that of its parent language, Pascal. A major difference in its use is that it is almost necessary to use routines from an inbuilt library.
SCAR appears to potentially just be Pascal with a very nice internal library for RS cheating. OSbornarfcontributionatoration 04:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related-related deletion discussions. -- OSbornarfcontributionatoration 04:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)