Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ALPACA programming language

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. —Centrx→talk • 00:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ALPACA programming language

This article was part of the mass AfD of "Esoteric Programming languages overturned by DRV here. It is being relisted for individual consideration. All these languages will be relisted, at five/day to prevent congestion. This is a procedural nomination, so I abstain. Xoloz 14:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There have been many previous esoteric programming language-related AfDs, often with mass nominations. Not all of the following will be relevant, but many may be.
Delete, no demonstrated notability.--Isotope23 20:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notable for being one of relatively few computer languages dedicated to cellular automata, let alone CA languages that are as powerful as this. Indeed, the article doesn't do ALPACA justice - we should expand it to give a much wider view of ALPACA's features, and link to it from the cellular automaton page. I can imagine people coming to it looking for languages used to specify the things. -- Smjg 21:52, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you point out several secondary sources which refer to this language? —Ruud 19:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dates shown are the date on which the debate started.

Previous Esoteric programming language-related deletion debates:

No result Votes for Deletion (multiple nomations), September 29 2004
Keep Votes for Deletion (Lazy K), November 26 2004
Delete Articles for Deletion (Obfuscated Weird Language), August 22 2005
Delete 1, keep 2 Articles for Deletion (3 languages), February 24 2006
No result Articles for Deletion (4 languages), February 24 2006
No consensus Articles for Deletion (3 languages), April 5 2006
Delete most Articles for Deletion (multiple nominations), August 31 2006
Overturn and relist Deletion Review, September 7 2006

--ais523 15:47, 18 September 2006 (U T C)

Delete Already merged, and a lack of apparent references prevents proper verification. As much as it's novel and interesting, it's nature means it's an end-tool rather than something future works build upon. LinaMishima 02:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep, already merged. Kappa 06:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect, already merged. --ais523 11:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- ??? Already merged with what? -- Smjg 21:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - List of esoteric programming languages (see the penultimate item on the list above). --ais523 16:46, 22 September 2006 (U T C)
Delete per my rationale at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esoteric programming languages. —Ruud 19:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for lack of notability as an esoteric language. Equendil Talk 00:15, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.