Re: wikipedia draft
- Posted by petelomax Jan 05, 2021
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I suggest that Pete should not be the one to submit the wikipedia article because the "COI" (conflict of interest) tag makes things difficult. Maybe if I submit your article, with an effort to make things neutral, we'll get acceptance--that puts us one "COI measure" further from direct conflict of interest.
The original draft was, almost, a direct copy of an existing wikipedia article. So yes, it should have passed. However, we must respect the reviewer.
be well
_tom
Sounds good to me.
You should probably put a notice on the talk page that you've taken over and I've agreed to go hands off (and keep any further discussion/input to this forum).
As you say, the first thing is to replace "opinions" and "sales spiel" with "neutral indisputable cold hard facts", however brutally honest they are.
I was thinking of citing the following (on the talk page) as "precedents" or "comparable references" (that is, once it is ready to be resubmitted):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoLisp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language)
(iow, the reference sections on those pages are relatively speaking pretty low-grade, yet they've been allowed)
FYI, off the back of the ycombinator discussion, I've added the following ready for the 0.8.3 docs ( http://phix.x10.mx/docs/html/language.htm )
The type "number" is a simple alias of "atom" (0.8.3+). There is deliberately no separate "float" type, rather 1.0 is stored as the integer 1 and that can be used directly in a floating point calculation without any casting or other type coercion. Technically there is such a thing internally, T_N, which is "fraction but not whole number", however were that exposed it would simply break should some result happen to be a whole integer, such as 1.5+1.5, so T_N is only ever used for fixed fractional values known at compile-time.
