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:: I quickly found those two links. I will post more references latter, as they don't seem sufficient. But searching "small" on google will probably be quite difficult. [[User:Caroliano|Caroliano]] ([[User talk:Caroliano|talk]]) 06:37, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

:: Back. First, another reliable third party source, but not as in depth as the drdobbs article:

::*Pawn is described (a section with 3 paragraphs) in Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition by by Jason Gregory, on page 962, as one of the commonly used scripting languages for games. YouOne can get the page via google books. [http://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Second-Edition/dp/1466560010 Amazon Link].

::*I don't know if a moderatedlymoderately big and notable open source project counts as a reliable source, but: [http://docs.enlightenment.org/auto/eio/embryo_main.html Embryo] interprets a subset of Small and is used in [[Enlightenment_(software)]]. This can also be confirmed by checking it is a package which e17 depends on all major Linux distros.

:: Now, more questionable evidence for notability:

::* Besides Small, Pawn and Embryo, another name related to the language is [https://wiki.alliedmods.net/Introduction_to_sourcepawn SourcePawn]. You will also find hundreds of [http://hellsgamers.com/topic/81279-wanting-to-learn-sourcepawn-scripting/ forum posts], [http://wiki.lethal-zone.eu/display/tf2/How+to+code+in+sourcepawn wikis], [http://unfgaming.net/404/sourcemod websites], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2u_Eaai2c youtube tutorials], [https://www.elance.com/j/coder-sourcepawn-c-skills-needed/40575353/ job recruitments], [http://namaristats.com/langs/SourcePawn github repositories] (more than 400, but most sourcepawn projects don't seem to have a github repository, as it is used by non-programmers), etc, about it. There are [http://www.sourcemod.net/plugins.php?cat=0&mod=-1&title=&author=&description=&search=1 more than 2500 plugins] written for sourcemod alone, presumably in SourcePawn. They now seem to be developing an more modern version of SourcePawn ([http://www.sourcemod.net/ this Feb 04, 2015 17:51 news that I can't get a link of], [https://wiki.alliedmods.net/SourcePawn_Transitional_Syntax Transitional Syntax]).