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:''"HGA's characterisation of Shen as having 'little that's qualitatively unique'"'' is a ''wild guess'' signaled by the weasel words ''"I think I know why"'', working from the observed facts and trying to figure out why Qi/Shen have made ''no'' apparent impact on the programming languages community, which might be expected to use some of its ideas if they were unique. That guess has resulted in no reply other than insult, plus now the above observation that it can do things that [[Williriha]] cannot (easily) do in [[ML_(programming_language)|ML]]. If I'm wrong, I would be interested in specifics about qualitative things that make it unique beyond implementation details, like it being a Lisp. [[User:Hga|Hga]] ([[User talk:Hga|talk]]) 22:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

* '''keep''' In the Lisp family of languages, Shen stands out in at least two respects: (1) Its type system, which is closer to a general theorem prover than to a traditional type system, and (2) its implementation by compilation to a minimalist subset of itself. Shen is actively developed, well documented in [http://www.shenlanguage.org/tbos.html The Book of Shen], and it has a small but active user base organized in a mailing list. Not being a Wikipedia expert, I cannot say if this suffices for notability, but as a Wikipedia user I would definitely expect Wikipedia to have an entry on Shen.