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:::(Note that the following is a wild guess:) I think I know why, besides the licensing, Qi and Shen have been entirely uninfluential, thereby failing to achieve Wikipedia notability: there's little that's qualitatively unique about them except for implementation details. They are explicitly intended to be modern functional languages, adding a number of features where Lisp hasn't kept up in any base version of the language. And Shen's KL is akin to the [[SECD machine]]. [[User:Hga|Hga]] ([[User talk:Hga|talk]]) 12:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

:<small class="delsort-notice">Note: This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computing|list of Computing-related deletion discussions]]. [[User:Northamerica1000|N<fontspan sizestyle="font-size:x-2small;">ORTH</fontspan> A<fontspan sizestyle="font-2size:x-small;">MERICA</fontspan>]]^{<fontspan sizestyle="font-size:x-2small;">[[User_talk:Northamerica1000|1000]]</fontspan>} 18:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)</small>

*'''Comment.''' Here's the problem I have with the argument that the work represents "an important step in language development". No one's argued anyone's using Qi or Shen and the author, Mark Tarver, is an academic, so I'm inclined to test the claim of importance in the way we often do in academia, which is to ask how often the work has been cited. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author%3A%22mark+tarver%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48 Here's] a Google scholar search on Tarver's papers. His paper on Qi has received only 3 citations and his paper on Shen has received only 2. Drilling down, three of those combined 5 citations are by Tarver himself, leaving these papers with ''only one citation each'' by anyone other than the author. Within the STEM disciplines, a significant paper is generally understood to be one that receives over 1000 citations. Qi and Shen are not only not important, almost no one's even noticed they exist. [[User:Msnicki|Msnicki]] ([[User talk:Msnicki|talk]]) 20:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC).

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<small>Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, [[User:Nakon|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#C50;">'''Nakon'''</fontspan>]] 05:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- from Template:Relist --></div>

:I should introduce myself; I am Dr Willi Riha, formerly lecturer in comparative programming languages at the university of Leeds.