Draft talk:Distributed Application Specification Language
As one of the 4 inventors/creators of DASL at Sun Microsystems, I object to having the article my colleagues and I wrote for Wikipedia being deleted. Our work on DASL was published in the public domain by Sun Microsystems Laboratories, the research arm of Sun Microsystems until it was acquired by Oracle.
We are aware that another lab reused our acronym (DASL) for their language. Sun did not copyright the name. That is not a reason to delete our page as not being noteworthy.
There are still some references to our programming language, DASL, on the web. See, for example, https://seattlewebsitedevelopers.medium.com/what-is-dasl-84b12fe4eb15 and https://programminglanguages.info/language/distributed-application-specification-language/. My Sun Labs technical report on DASL is part of the ACM Digital Library: [1].
After discovering that my article had be deleted, I searched for my language and found this LinkedIn article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ace-dasl-distributed-application-specification-language-santosh-kumar which contains a jumble of misinformation, along with a decent summary of what the language was about. I have filed a report with LinkedIn regarding the fact that the article is full of misinformation about the origins of DASL, which they incorrectly attribute to Microsoft and Carnegie Melon University.
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