Talk:WikiPL

I am not entirely sure this is a programming language.

Are the set of pages on the wiki, taken together, meant to constitute the implementation (and thus implicitly the specification) of a programming language? If so, it is not made clear on the site. —ehird 01:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, this FAQ entry seems to suggest that it is definitely not a programming language. —ehird 02:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Now I feel cheated :( The reddit discussion seems to agree. --Ørjan 09:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hm one of the reddit comments has a pointer to a description of an older attempt called Wikiplia at [1]. Unfortunately the wiki itself seems dead. --Ørjan 10:08, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

This concept is screaming to be esoterified; we have to steal it! Phantom Hoover 10:16, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I think Wikiplia has a better claim than WikiPL to "the free programming language that anyone can edit". So much in fact that I think I'm going to move this article to Wikiplia (to preserve this discussion) and change it. --Ørjan 10:39, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Moving WikiPL to Wikiplia wasn't the right course of action - they're distinct, apparently unrelated projects. So doing this for the excuse that Wikiplia is an earlier example of the concept is like redirecting all of the various two-dimensional languages to Befunge.

Anyway, what actually is WikiPL - essentially a library for Python? It might still be worthy of inclusion here for its own merits, but I'm not sure. -- Smjg 14:35, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

It's certainly insane: behold this table from their style guide that is, somehow, not a joke:

Good names	Bad names
ConvertVariantCallFormatFrom33To40	Convert, ConvertVCFFrom33To40 (there are many VCF formats), ConvertVariantCallFormat
ApplyBonferoniCorrectionToTTestPValues	ProcessPValues, ApplyBonferoniCorrection, BonferoniCorrection
CompareTwoTextFilesAndGetTheDifferentLines	CompareTwoTextFiles, CompareTextFiles

—ehird 16:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

The reason I moved rather than delete outright (which needs an admin anyhow) was to preserve this discussion. I wouldn't have done so if I still thought WikiPL deserved an article on this wiki. I only started that article because WikiPL had a misleading tagline. --Ørjan 15:03, 4 December 2010 (UTC)