Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Essentials of Programming Languages

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The result was keep. Chaser - T 17:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Essentials of Programming Languages

non-notable book. I originally speedied it but evidently A7 doesn't apply to books so here it is.-- ugen64 17:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Courses using this text[1]:

C311: Introduction to Programming Languages, at Indiana University
CS 373: Programming Language Structures, Lewis and Clark College
CS 341: Survey of Programming Languages, Gettysburg College
CS784: Programming Languages at Wright State University
CS312 Programming Language Design, Washington & Lee University
CS380: Organization of Programming Languages, at Seattle University
B521: Programming Languages, at Indiana University
Comp311: Principles of Computing and Programming, at Rice University
COM3351: Principles of Programming Languages, at Northeastern University
CS722-F: Principles of Programming Languages, at National Technological University
CS217: Programming Languages, at Carleton College
CS455: Programming Systems and Languages, at Washington University
CPSC 311 Definition of Programming Languages, at University of British Columbia
CPSC 511 Porgramming Languages, at University of British Columbia
CS330: Concepts of Programming Languages, at Brigham Young University
Com S342: Principles of Programming Languages, at Iowa State
CS345: Programming Languages, at the University of Texas
C311: Programming Languages, at Indiana University South Bend
CS450: Organization of Programming Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo
20504: Workshop: Essentials of Programming Languages at The Open University of Israel
CS173: Programming Languages, Brown University
CS350: Programming Language Concepts, University of Regina
EECS761 Programming Language Paradigms, University of Kansas

That seems pretty notable to me --MarSch 10:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Twenty-three out of -- how many? 2,500? -- colleges and universities in North America? That's about the total number of colleges and universities in Washington State alone. Seems pretty unnotable to me. --Calton | Talk 15:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I was right about to vote delete (though it pained me to vote to delete a scheme book) before MarSch posted. Anywho, per WP:NB, being the text book for courses at multiple universities is sufficient for notability, bookwise. Someguy1221 10:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. but I hope MarSch can provide the websites if someone bugs him for them. Someguy1221 10:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The links to the actual websites are on the bottom of the homepage of the book, also linked above. --MarSch 09:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. It's a textbook, so (surprise surprise) it's used by some schools. If your only references that discuss this are lists of schools using it, it's nothing more than a directory listing. --Calton | Talk 15:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There's a review in ACM Computing Reviews, May 2001, by Max Hailperin. I'm having trouble accessing the whole review right now, but the snippet I can see reads "The first edition of this book [1] has been so influential that the initials EOPL are a widely understood shorthand. It is still the primary representative of one school of thought regarding how programming language principles should be..." which is enough to convince me that this is an important text. This review (and the review of the first edition in the Feb 1, 1994 issue of Computing Reviews, and the review in J. Functional Programming 13:829-831 would likely make adequate secondary sources for a more complete article. —David Eppstein 05:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I haven't heard of it myself, but if ACM Computing Reviews calls it very influential, that seems sufficiently notable to me. --Delirium 07:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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