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Protologism, original research. 27 unique Google hits, including author's home page and some WP mirrors. Article author has this to say on his personal page: "Thus, I am here trying to sell the dream and vision of perhaps what should be called 'collection-oriented-programming.' I found it a more powerful metaphore than anything else on the market, and I hope you will too." Craig Stuntz 12:57, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This seems more a complaint about the colloquial nature of blogs than the topic at hand. If somebody says in a blog, "Lisp is fricken cool and runs circles around other languages!", that is NOT a reason to delete Lisp topics. The above cited page is not even directly linked to by "collection oriented programming", and thus appears more of a complaint about the author's personal blog or blog style than of the wikipedia topic content itself.

If you want to argue that the name is not in common-enough usage to justify an article, that is another matter. As the case is stated above, I question the objectivity of the complaint.

Protologism complaints may not apply to computer-related topics because print publications are not where ideas are formed and shaped about software anymore. The web has largely replaced formal software journals, for good or bad.

"Collection oriented programming" is simply a name that encompasses a wide variety of tools and languages. It was not coined by the author of the above page.

--Tablizer