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: Counterpoint: Joy is notable for two reasons. First, Joy is itself the first attempt to establish any kind of theoretical basis for the success that stack-based languages have had in specific areas of computing; the most notable such success was Postscript, with Forth coming in a remote second. Second, Joy is an essential link in the evolution of stack-based programming languages from Forth and Postscript to the modern Factor language. Without the papers on von Thun's site (written using Joy as their notation) Factor would have looked very different.

: Joy is a specific programming language which (fairly recently) broke new ground in a previously unstudied area of computer language syntax. That there are no researchers (in acadamia) working in this field does not mean the field does not exist; the field is notable for its extensive practical use and the fact that until von Thun (the author of Joy) wrote his research up on his website, there was no theoretical basis for all this practical common use. Will it ever be studied? That question is not something that should be decided as part of a discussion of whether to delete a page. <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Wtanksleyjr|Wtanksleyjr]] ([[User talk:Wtanksleyjr|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Wtanksleyjr|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

*<small class="delsort-notice">'''Note''': This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computing|list of Computing-related deletion discussions]]. <!--Template:Deletion sorting--></small> <small>-- [[User:Cybercobra|<b><font colorstyle="color:#3773A5;">Cyber</font></b><fontspan colorstyle="color:#FFB521;">cobra</fontspan>]] [[User talk:Cybercobra|(talk)]] 00:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)</small>

*<small class="delsort-notice">'''Note''': This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Software|list of Software-related deletion discussions]]. <!--Template:Deletion sorting--></small> <small>-- [[User:Cybercobra|<b><font colorstyle="color:#3773A5;">Cyber</font></b><fontspan colorstyle="color:#FFB521;">cobra</fontspan>]] [[User talk:Cybercobra|(talk)]] 00:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)</small>

'''Keep''' because nothing good ever came of a deletion spree. [[User:Ubernostrum|Ubernostrum]] ([[User talk:Ubernostrum|talk]]) 03:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)