Wikipedia:Peer review/BASIC programming language/archive1
This article is one of the most popular based on page views, it should become featured. - cohesion★talk 05:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
How do you check an article's page views? Scifiintel 13:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- I scanned through this article with a few things in mind, they were all there and more. Seems to be a thorough, coherent, excellent article. One very slight thing - I wonder if all the versions of basic could be organized into some kind of summary, or heirarchical presentation, maybe even by release date. --RichG 12:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- I rephrased some section titles. I had a minor quibble with their tone. Also, the lead needs expanding if this is going to be a featured article. Nicely referenced piece of work. - Mgm|(talk) 20:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
- I too wish to know how you check an article's page views. --bodnotbod 15:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- Very well written, but I suspect it could do with being read through by someone who knows nothing about programming to check how accessible it is. Here are a few things I spotted.
- The intro needs to be much longer to get FA status - at least two paragraphs, preferably three.
- Early years: would be better if it said what Fortran 77 and Algol 60 are. The footnotes at the end of the paragraph should really go in a notes section at the end of the article in accordance with WP:CITE: see WP:FN for a way of doing this.
- Maturity: "Though it is somewhat difficult to consider this language to be BASIC" - say why.
- Procedures and flow control: The term 'procedure' needs to be explained. I'd suggest wikifying the word, but the article procedure is a little surreal at the moment. A sentence would be plenty, just something to tell a non-programmer what it means.
- BASIC dialects: "There are more dialects of BASIC than there are of any other programming language." - could do with a source being cited.
- File:Yemen flag large.png CTOAGN (talk) 01:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
