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:"Wikipedia has been, as far as I can tell, the only uniform and complete source of up-to-date information on functional programming languages. With the deletion of popular, interesting languages like Nemerle and Pure, it becomes immediately useless because it is no longer comprehensive. While I agree that old languages with low notability and no users should be cleaned out, a much more conservative attitude should be taken toward languages with a considerable, active user and/or developer bases. Moreover, languages that are not particularly popular or referenced highly, but that serve as token examples of a concept should be kept around for conceptual completeness. You have argued elsewhere that in this case, the concept itself should be given its own article. I think that in the case of programming languages, the concept, which may just be a mere combination of certain features, does not always warrant such an article. Again, if such languages are removed, then Wikipedia is no longer a comprehensive source of information on the topic and we must look elsewhere. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is no "elsewhere", so now we are without such a resource and those seeking a comprehensive overview of functional programming languages will be lost in the dark. Morgan Sutherland (talk) 23:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)"
[[User:Morgansutherland|Morgan Sutherland]] ([[User talk:Morgansutherland|talk]]) 08:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
:Unfortunately, Wikipedia being the only place to hold information on a subject is not a reason to keep it. Quite the opposite, in fact; Wikipedia being the only source on a topic is a reason to delete that topic.--[[User: Yaksar|Yaksar]] [[User talk: Yaksar|(let's chat)]] 02:51, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
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