Talk:John Backus Turing Award Lecture
Hi! While I appreciate the topic, please reconsider using language models to generate wiki pages. Additionally, this article doesn't fit into what is topical for the main namespace; generally, we are looking for languages, concepts, program forms (which complexity theorists call "problems" and computer scientists call "algorithms"), and data structures; moreover, we do not directly study algorithms and data structures, but document them in order to be able to document languages. For example, we don't yet have a page for FP itself.
Further: We generally want articles to be related to the rest of the wiki. We have articles on pointfree and tacit programming and concatenative languages along with an interwiki "catlangwiki:" for the concatenative languages wiki. We have a category for the functional-programming paradigm, Category:Functional paradigm. Backus was writing in the aftermath of topics like combinatory logic and computability theory, for which we also have articles. When a language model is used to generate text, the resulting article doesn't connect to anything else; the generative tool does not know whether a link will be blue or red.
Finally, in terms of legality, the generative tool that you used might not be compatible with the copyright policy we have, documented at esolang:copyrights. It's important to us that the wiki not copy anything verbatim from scholarly sources like whitepapers, other wikis with differing licensing like Wikipedia, or arbitrary web sites that were used to train the underlying language model; quotes need to be cited and sourced because we are not plagiarists. If you insist on uploading generated text to the wiki, then please tag it with the Category:Generated by AI category. Corbin (talk) 19:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)