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Talk:Second-generation programming language

message: The idea of "generations" of programming languages appears to have arisen as a bit of marketing jargon particularly around the epoch of the so-called "fourth-generation" languages. The proposed distinctions imply that trends in language popularity are progressive rather than being driven by a combination of marketing fads and shifting requirements.
It is increasingly obvious, however, that this is the case: while there is a broad general trend towards greater abstraction from the hardware, it is not monotonic. For instance see the decline in popularity of the more-abstract language Lisp in favor of the closer-to-hardware C and C++ in the 1980s and '90s. Nor is there a determined trend towards application specificity; see, for instance, the demise of special-purpose COBOL for general-purpose Java in business applications.
Of course, changes in language popularity are not driven entirely by marketing. COBOL lacks standard libraries to talk to Internet clients; Java has them. As talking to the Internet becomes more important for the problem domain, usage migrates to a language where it is natural: Java. Likewise in other domains: biological science programming, once dominated by Fortran, acquires a need for text processing due to the rising importance of genomics, and begins to migrate to Perl. These changes are not toward greater application specificity, but rather toward closer fit to changing application requirements.
(Indeed, the newly adopted languages often lack underlying application-specific features the old ones have: Java does not have fixed-point decimal numbers, a COBOL feature valuable for business applications.)
What's my point? The idea of successive "generations" of programming languages replacing one another at higher levels of abstraction and application specificity is not historically accurate after, say, 1960. (COBOL, Fortran, and Lisp all existed in 1960.) Wikipedia should not present it uncritically, but rather note it wherever it appears as folk-history and marketing jargon rather than historical reality. --FOo 15:23, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: Pursuing the suggestions to reorganize this material, I have created a page called Programming language generations, using this and additional material, as explained on its discussion page. If interested, please go there and make further improvements. Thanks CSProfBill (talk) 14:33, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would much prefer to have all pages on n-th generation programming language redirect to that page and use Trevor Hanson's excellent summary above as the core of the article text. If nobody objects I'm going to issue a merge proposal to do it. Rp (talk) 08:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization
Talk:Public-key cryptography

message: I have just reverted a spate of changes by @2402:3a80:19f8:c3dc::2 which had seemingly randomly copy-pasted chunks of text of the article into different sections. As far as I can tell there were no meaningful contributions made with any of these edits – just nuisance text. I think I got them all. Phidica (talk) 02:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Phidica It looks like you got it all. I wasn't sure what was going on with this contribution. Thanks for evaluating it. ~Kvng (talk) 15:24, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted vandalism
Talk:Operation Paperclip

message: Hi. The part of the introduction that says "The project was not initially targeted against the Soviet Union; rather the concern was that German scientists might emigrate and continue their research in countries such as Spain, Argentina or Egypt, all of which had sympathized with Nazi Germany." does not match what reference 8 says, which is used to justify that sentence there and when it is repeated in the "Capture and detention" section (the other reference used I couldn´t find to read it). In the CIA reference used it talks about neutral countries without specifying which ones, when it mentions Spain, Argentina or Egypt it also says Sweden, Portugal and Turkey to talk about gold and saying that those countries in general cooperated to recover it (marked with the number 58 in the source). I was wondering if it was possible to replace the incomplete list of countries by the term "neutral countries" which is the one used in the reference to talk about Project SAFEHAVEN.  Verent (talk) 22:21, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral countries 

message: — Assignment last updated by Wordnerd104 (talk) 23:04, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello all, I wanted to introduce myself before I make any edits. My partner and I are planning on clarifying the "scientific achievements" part of this article to make it more specific. Thank you for having us. Casphodel23 (talk) 21:14, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ENG 21011 Research Writing
Talk:The Spike (novel)

message: From the article:
:Of course, some liberals also allege that conservative-owned news outlets do the same thing.  De Borchgrave is a senior editor of the Washington Times which unashamedly describes itself as a voice for conservatism.  Whether or not the Times, or any other news organization, itself spikes news, or harbors a liberal or conservative bias, is a matter of opinion among the organization's readers, listeners, and/or viewers.
This argument about the "same thing" is out of place in a discussion about a novel. I think the ideas expressed in the above 3 sentences belong in the spiking article. 
Oh, and BTW, if there's anyone who claims that conservative newspapers in general, or the Wash Times in particular, have ever "spiked" stories in the way de Borchgrave novel claims, I do hope they will provide an example at the spiking and/or Washington Times pages. --Uncle Ed 16:33, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Voltumna

message: I'm always doubtful of these confident assertions about Etruscan deities. Where is this information coming from? There's never any source mentioned. Wetman 18:16, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Customer-premises equipment

message: Reduce jargon in opening sentence -Hemanshu 18:46, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: My commandment, people!

message: Someone recently added this text, and I've removed it to here:
:In Electrolysis a Board Certified Electrologist who has passed training and exam criteria established by The American Electrology Association and Educational Testing Service's The Chauncey Group  Although established in The United States Of America, the CPE is a recognized credential all over the world.
I think they probably added it here because "CPE" hard-redirects here. It should instead go into a free-standing article and "CPE" should be turned from a hard-redirect into a disambiguation page.
Atlant 16:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Certified Professional Electrologist 

message: I thought it was "Customer Premise Equipment". [sic]  That is, the singular rather than the plural.  It was back in the 1980's, anyway.
Erikb495 (talk) 09:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't it "Customer Premise Equipment"? 
Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee

message: : Discussion not relating to MediationBot should go in this section. New discussions can be added to this section by simply starting a . 
== Dispute resolution ideas==
Hi all. I've opened a discussion on Wikipedia's dispute resolution processes at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Wikipedia_dispute_resolution_for_complex_disputes which mentions the Mediation Committee. If anyone is is watching this page, I'd appreciate your thoughts. Steven Crossin 17:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a dispute and need a resolution for my page that was deleted. AWiseWoman22 (talk) 01:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other discussion 

message: Hi all. I've opened a discussion on Wikipedia's dispute resolution processes at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Wikipedia_dispute_resolution_for_complex_disputes which mentions the Mediation Committee. If anyone is is watching this page, I'd appreciate your thoughts. Steven Crossin 17:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a dispute and need a resolution for my page that was deleted. AWiseWoman22 (talk) 01:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute resolution ideas
Talk:Oracle Database

message: the version I downloaded and installed identifies as "23.0.0".
this article mentions the initial version as "23.2.0".
what am I missing? Erwindon (talk) 23:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: With 23.2.0, the .2 is a "release update" version, which is basically a patch version. It's a little more than a normal patch, because sometimes they add new features in the release update. 57.140.28.12 (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  version 23.x 

message: Why are two initial versions listed for v5
5.0.22 (5.1.17) GrandPoohBah (talk) 00:41, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why two initial versions listed for v5
Talk:Trinomial nomenclature

message: I am not sure that without an identification for a taxon a subspecies can be assumed. It looks wrong to me..  (GerardM)
It is all right - this is absolutely standard usage, at least where vertebrate animals are concerned.  I don't know about plants or invertebrates, let alone protists etc, and it may be that subsp. needs to be specified for them.  In animals, the lower subspecific taxa are rarely (never?) used.  If you look in any bird book - or zoological learned journal -- you'll see trinomials done as genus species subspecies without qualification. seglea 22:43, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: I moved the following text from the page to here:
:Such examples of the use of trimonial nomenclatures are few, although highly relevant to humans. There has been debate as to whether the human species should receive the trinomial homo loco sapiens or homo sapien sapiens. The former, indicating the language of the human species (loco deriving from the Latin "I speak") has only recently been explored. The nomenclature homo sapien sapiens is being more accepted, as it reflects the higher level of intelligence acquired by humans as a species.
The reference "such examples" is missing an antecedent, trinomens aren't very rare, there are no sources, nomenclature depends on priority not what name is "best", and, in any event, this would belong on a page like Homo (genus) rather than here even if it did belong in Wikipedia. Kingdon 17:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good edit, Kingdon.  Many of these nomenclature articles probably need read and edited for content and references, now that it's a bit safe to do so.  KP Botany 17:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

text: (If "homo loco" was a joke, sorry for the lack of a sense of humor, and do take it to ). Kingdon 22:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  homo loco
Talk:Euglenozoa

message: This page should say how many species are in the phylum. --Savant13 20:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of species

message: * Are Euglenozoa and Euglenophyta the same? Euglena is said to belong to Euglenophyta phylum but Excavata doesn't contain it. --Abanima (talk) 13:58, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that Euglenophyta is the same as the euglenids, one of the three (or so) groups in the Euglenozoa. Kingdon (talk) 14:00, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclature 

message: What is the function of this rod? There is not much written about this in the wikipedia article. 84.112.136.52 (talk) 19:30, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The rod
Talk:2004 United States House of Representatives elections

message: holy sheet, this page is tres impressive! Lots of work! Very useful! Kingturtle 23:59, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There's a possibility that Don Sherwood (R-PA 10) will run unnoposed/as a R-D again... it seems that the Democrat candidate has been removed from the ballot.
The Texan primaries have finished BTW
Al—Preceding undated comment added at 13:36, 11 March 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates

message: Most of my info is from Politics1.  They tend to include everyone who has claimed to be running for an office, even if the candidate will not be on the ballot.
:Texas - Texas official candidates list - Jonel 05:45, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: it seems this page is the victim of a huge database error, and this effects the pages which this page links to
--RobbieFal 19:57, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small problem 

message: Shouldn't this article have a table showing the seat changes, for consistency with every other U.S. House election page? I tried adding one, but it seems my change was reverted. - Feb 8, 2005—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.2.225 (talk) 23:24, 8 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: Should there be some sort of notation showing those Representatives who did not finish their term?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Barkeep49 (talk • contribs) 14:22, 17 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Between election changes 

message: I think it would be helpful if the actual votes the candidates received were shown and not just the percentages.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpcarver (talk • contribs) 19:56, 25 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote Totals 

message: Why no seating plan, a la Canadian federal election, 2006? Fishhead64 22:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a Canadian thing. Also, I don't know if anyone knows where people sit in the House. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 23:30, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Seating plan

message: In the abstract the article says that mid-decade politicized redistricting was common in the 19th century. There is no citation or example given, so this is highly suspect to a cynical reader.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.253.23.172 (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation 

message: Someone needs to change the picture to show Illinois 8th District was gained by the Democrats. In other words, it needs to be colored in Blue in the picture of the united states congressional district map.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Politics2012 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Illinois 8th Democratic gain
Talk:Sullivan Act

message: "Many believe the act was to discriminate against immigrants in New York, particularly Italians, as the first person arrested under the law was mobster Giuseppe Costabile." This statement is sourced to a pro-gun blog, and not even to a particular blog entry there.  "Many believe" seems a questionable way to make a factual statement.  Positioning this information above the facts about Mayor Gaynor seems to bias the conclusions away from the factual causes and toward specualtive ones -- that is, the Gaynor shooting was a definite factor in the law's passage and discrimination only a possible one, and yet discrimination is given privilege of place (and length, and consideration).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.229.172.169 (talk) 21:14, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Highly questionable information

message: A quick question: The following sentence is unclear: "Upon first passage, the Sullivan Act banned the ownership of pistols in New York, more formally, it required licenses for New Yorkers to own guns small enough to be concealed." Does it mean that pistols were outright prohibited at first, but then allowed if licensed? Was it not in fact a ban, but rather a mandatory licensing? --snoyes 00:22, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it was a de facto ban, because anyone who already owned a handgun was immediately in violation until they could get a license; in fact two of the first-day arrests were of pawnbrokers – one had five revolvers displayed in the shop window, the other had several in a desk drawer.  --CliffC 11:29, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear

message: I expanded the list of weapons cited by the law.  While working on "Mad Bomber" George Metesky I was surprised to discover he was also charged with Sullivan Law violations for carrying the thirty-odd bombs he placed around town.  The law also makes having a cute little gadget called a slungshot a felony; I thought it was a typo for slingshot, but it's not. --CliffC 11:29, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not just guns

message: I am searching for a reference that research which supported the Sullivan Act was admitted on the death bed of it's author to have been falsified. Anybody know who that was?    Contact me "at" kc4iai_hotmail.com
LK Tucker 108.206.18.197 (talk) 06:24, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question: 

message: Currently this article quotes from Justice Alito’s concurrence in the Bruen case, but shouldn’t it also make reference to the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, authored by Justice Thomas, which declared the “proper cause” requirement unconstitutional (after it had apparently stood for a over a century)? RoslinTollcross (talk) 23:08, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discuss the Majority Opinion in the Bruen case.  

message: — Assignment last updated by Simmsmls (talk) 16:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Legal Research
Talk:Punisher

message: For years, this article has linked descriptions of the Punisher symbol (in visible text as "skull and crossbones" or "death's head") to Totenkopf. More recently, the term "totenkopf" has been used in the visible text as well. Totenkopf is not the more common English term, and when it is used it is generally referring to the German military decoration.
Writer Gerry Conway, who put a skull into the costume design, has specifically denied the link to the military decoration, saying that it was inspired by pirates and by The Phantom. False association with the German military symbol has already shown up elsewhere,  I suspect driven by the usage on this page. As such, I have removed invocation of the term "totenkopf", replacing the links to the page Skull and crossbones (symbol). --Nat Gertler (talk) 12:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Totenkopf 

message: One or more IP editors have recently tried replacing "antihero" in the lede with "superhero", claiming it's the neutral term.
To which I reply: Which part is a neutral description - super, or hero? Both seem heavily POV. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:06, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Nat Gertler, I think you have it wrong as here it's being changed to the neutral term "character" not "superhero". It's User:Lobo151 who has been reverting to "anithero" as seen here minutes before your post, which is the POV term. 207.229.139.154 (talk) 13:09, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

text: Whoops, there have been both "character" and superhero inserted there of late; I lost track on the reverts. "Antihero" is a fine descriptor, and supported in the discussion above. -Nat Gertler (talk) 13:33, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  antihero versus superhero 

message: ItsPunisherOP is A Bangladeshi Minecraft youtuber  and in this short period of game time he developed his skills very fast. He is beating up almost every good players at servers. But he is still under rated 103.132.187.217 (talk) 22:50, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Bangladeshi Minecraft Youtuber ItsPunisherOP
Talk:Graduate student

message: This page and PhD have a lot of overlap in content (although not authorship), and should perhaps be reworked concurrently?  See Talk:Doctor of Philosophy.  --zandperl 02:10, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: Anybody have references, either virtual or physical, for the various things stated here?  A lot of it reads like personal experiences, and it does read quite well, so if we referenced it further I'd like to nominate the page for featured article status.  --zandperl 20:42, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I don't want to ruffle any feathers here, but I wonder if this page is sticking closely enough tot he NPOV rule.  There is a great deal of bitterness in this article and at times it sounds more like disaffected grad students voicing their complaints, rather than an encyclopedia article.
A little less vitriol in the "Life after graduate school" would be nice. What would we lose by merging all of this with Ph.D.? Eldereft 06:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In response to your second point, graduate students are not only PhD students.  Exploding Boy 06:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that most statements made in the article that seem NPOV are poorly (or not at all) cited, written in a somewhat inflammatory way, and are absolutely correct.  I have done a great deal of research on this subject and come to the same conclusions.  There are hundreds of articles on the web on the subject.  Articles discussing the overproduction of PhD's in physics are consistent and can be found as far as 20 years back.  There are numerous books written about it - consider "The PhD trap" by Cude.  I have many of these links at home, and plan on reading a few more books.  I will update this page, but it will be quite a long time before I do. PitOfBabel 16:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV?

message: How is that POV?  It's my own picture.  It's just self-deprecating humor, and there's no policy that explicitly forbids it. Billy Blythe 03:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please set up a separate wikipedia page with your picture and call it something like 'Condition of a Graduate Student'. Since you asked: You are actually violating most of the Five pillars You are presumed to be biased towards yourself and so violate NPOV.  In addition, putting your own picture up would count as Original Research.  Insertion of a bad joke is vandalism.Skapur Skapur 03:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV Pic?
Talk:Little Rock Central High School

message: I found from 1998 the page on the magnet program from the Little Rock area magnet school consortium https://web.archive.org/web/19981206174432/http://www.magnetschool.com/central.htm
WhisperToMe (talk) 02:20, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old magnet program page 

message: — Assignment last updated by Dutchermann (talk) 23:41, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Historian's Craft
Talk:Richard Hanson (Canadian politician)

message: I made an interesting observation while trying to write an article for this apparently obscure Canadian politician.  Wikipedia lists Richard Hanson as the leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada] from 1940-1943.
However, the only non-Wikipedia-influenced source I can find on the web that says anything about him is a page on the Canadian parliament's website that mentions Hanson and another guy named Arthur Meighen (not currently mentioned on the Wikipedia page) as the only two Progressive Conservative party leaders not to be chosen by national convention.
It also mentions that the dates for Hanson are 1940-1941, and that Meighen was party leader, 1941-1942.  This contradicts the list on the Progressive Party Wikipedia page.
I think it's reasonable to assume that the info on Parliament's page is good, but it doesn't give enough to write a correction, just enough to make it clear that the Wikipedia list has a problem.
Would someone with more knowledge of Canada, or a good textbook, like to sort this out?  There's nothing on the web to help, and I don't have an appropriate hard-copy reference.  He's not especially important, but think of it as a challenge.
Thanks, Isomorphic 03:47, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled