Template:Did you know nominations/FOCAL (programming language)
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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:56, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Did not meet expansion requirements.
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FOCAL (programming language)
- ... that David H. Ahl considered FOCAL a superior language, but when DEC refused to license it, he had a BASIC written for the PDP-8 instead? Source: interview article linked in body
- ALT1 ... that David H. Ahl considers DEC's FOCAL to be a Betamax of programming languages? Source: interview article linked in body
- Reviewed: Pending
5x expanded by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 16:14, 2 October 2019 (UTC).
@Maury Markowitz: I'm not sure this is meeting 5x expansion. The last revision before yours had 5879 prose characters, so you need about 29,400 for 5x and you're at 21,100. Raymie (t • c) 06:11, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
- I think it's actually worse than that. Since material from the long-extant article FOCAL-69 was merged into this article as the first two edits in the expansion, that adds to the base number of prose characters subject to expansion (FOCAL-69 had 4853 prose characters prior to the merger, though it's hard to tell exactly how much of it was incorporated into the target article). So I think the expansion will need to be significantly larger than to 29,400; probably in the 40,000 to 50,000 range, unfortunately. It might be easier to go via the Good Article route. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:17, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
The prose counter is ignoring anything in a different style, which makes up a significant portion of the text even in the non-tabular areas. BM, I rewrote pretty much all of it. But whatever, close it. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
COORDS: close this one Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:27, 15 October 2019 (UTC)