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[[User:Jazzer7|Jazzer7]] ([[User talk:Jazzer7|talk]]) 06:51, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
== Examples Gathered Indiscriminately ==
Something that has bothered me about many of the articles regarding lambda calculus. There is a tendency to make examples a massive cludge from lots of different program languages that do not add any encyclopedic value to the content of the article. Everyone looks at an article, and says, "My favorite language isn't represented here!" and then adds it.
In the last few weeks, I noticed two additions to this article list of examples (C-sharp and Javascript). These are useless examples. I'm always a little weary getting rid of content, but this every growing list of examples has to stop. It violates [[WP:NOT]] on indiscriminate lists; in particular, it is a list of information which was gathered in a thoughtless manner not consistent with expanding the encyclopedic value of the article.
Examples are good however. So I propose that we leave two examples. One from a procedural language and one from a functional language. I think the best ones to leave are Python (because it's very human-readable) and ML, which for some reason isn't even on the article despite being of the [[WP:PEA|greatest]] theoretical importance (probably because you need to use let rec...). I would [[WP:BOLD|be bold]], but I'm a little hesitant to alter so many people's edits without giving a chance for people to tell me why they believe this isn't a indiscriminate list of information. So without other suggestions, I will make my proposed changes soon. [[User:Wgunther|Wgunther]] ([[User talk:Wgunther|talk]]) 14:32, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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