Wiki143:Articles for deletion/SAS (programming language)

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The result was Redirect, cannot see any content to merge so am just redirecting to SAS System where it is already mentioned in the Features section. Davewild (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

SAS (programming language)

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Delete nn programming language, just because it's bits and bytes doesn't make it notable. no sources as usual... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 03:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge with SAS_System. Racepacket (talk) 04:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Article does not explain what the SAS programming language is, just a fact about it. That is not an article, and a sentence like that will do no good in any article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
• Expand. Given that the SAS language can be used by different products (i.e. the SAS System or the World Programming System), I dont think this page can be merged with the existing SAS_System page. Presently the SAS System page does have some content about the SAS language itself but it is mixed in with product and organisational information specifically only from the SAS institute. Perhaps a solution is to move some of the content on the SAS_System page to this page to describe the SAS language independently of products that support the language. --Squidsey (talk) 12:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per Squidsey. --Itub (talk) 13:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC) Merge until someone writes a real article. This is barely a stub and there is a reasonable merge target. I reconsidered my "keep an expand" since articles don't expand themselves, and no one is expanding it yet. --Itub (talk) 10:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep I've used the SAS language sporadically over the past few decades and it is still notable. There is added content that should be pulled into this article to expand it. Alansohn (talk) 13:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
• Merge with SAS System until someone wants to take the effort to make and source a real article. SAS itself is highly notable, but I'm not convinced its programming language is separately notable from the rest of the system, and the current tiny stub doesn't do anything to help convince me. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
• Merge with SAS System, which seeing as there's virtually no content amounts to reverting it to the redirect it was until recently. Many computer packages have their own "language" but we don't want separate articles on "SPSS (programming language)", "Matlab (programming language)" etc. The only difference with SAS is that someone has written a partly syntax-compatible competitor package, which could conceivably happen for these others too. Qwfp (talk) 00:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

• Actually there is already another program "mostly compatible" with Matlab: GNU Octave. But anyway, given how short this article is, I wouldn't object to turning it into a redirect. If someone ever wants to expand the section about the language in the SAS article, they can split out the article again. --Itub (talk) 09:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

(Comment - i think a vague recollection of Octave's existence was lurking somewhere at the back of my mind when I wrote that late last night... Qwfp (talk)) —Preceding comment was added at 10:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.