Talk:Lightweight programming language

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The result of the move request was moved to Lightweight programming language –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:24, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

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Lightweight languages → Lightweight Programming Language — "lightweight languages" doesn't seem like correct entry -> plural + unclear it's from the computer domain EnTerr (talk) 06:52, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

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• Support move to Lightweight programming language, since it's not a proper noun. Jafeluv (talk) 09:15, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support lowercased - not a proper noun. 81.110.104.91 (talk) 16:34, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Is this article notable?

The headline says it all. What do you think? Smlck19 (talk) 16:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

I am leaning towards no. Many of the individual languages (Forth, BASIC) listed are notable, but the concept of a lightweight programming language? Not so much. What is the criteria for inclusion? what is the definition of "lightweight" being used? Right now it is a catchall for WP:OR, including anything some random editor decided was lightweight. Why were Scratch, LEGO Mindstorms, and Arduino sketch language left out? Is Basic lightweight? Tiny Basic is but Power Basic and Pure Basic are not. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:12, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

So, what to do? Improve it or list it for deletion? The only good citation I found to support this article is Minimalist Language from WikiWikiWeb. Smlck19 (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

List it at WP:AfD. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:39, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

I think that this article could be merged into the list of programming languages by type as a section named minimal or lightweight programming languages. What about that? Smlck19 (talk) 16:39, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

What is the criteria for deciding which kind of programming language something is, and what source are we to use for that definition? With, say, object oriented programming languages or stack-based programming languages one can find multiple reliable sources sources that define the terms plus many sources that say things like "C++ is an object oriented programming language" or "Forth is a stack-based programming language". --Guy Macon (talk) 00:24, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Hmm. Smlck19 (talk) 03:32, 5 January 2020 (UTC)