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The result was delete. May be a fascinating project but no evidence of third-party coverage was presented, which is really what's needed for inclusion of articles, not subject arguments about the number of downloads per month and so on. W.marsh 19:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Minor programming language with no verifiable userbase.
While Wikipedia includes articles on a number of other minor programming languages, most of these have some other source of notability -- e.g. F Sharp programming language is notable for the Microsoft connection, while Malbolge and Unlambda are notorious in the programming languages community for their difficulty of use. So far as I can tell, Seed7 has nothing.
The WP:SOFTWARE proposal, while not an official policy, is a useful metric for deciding what software should be included. It's worth noting that Seed7 fails it completely; it appears that the only published document about the language is a thesis written by its creator.
Google rankings are a flawed metric, but extremely small numbers of Google results for software is often a useful indicator of non-notability. Seed7 fails here too: "seed7 programming -wikipedia" returns just 120-odd unique results. (Searching without "programming" includes many false positives, and the number of unique results returned is still under 1000.) — Haeleth Talk 16:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]