Talk:Rosetta Code/Run examples

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Output extra credit

Since it's just extra credit I don't think this should keep it from being a full task, but I'm concerned about the output checking EC. It might just end up being too problematic because of the different ways languages show certain things. The first example I thought of was lists. Here's how the same list might look in different languages:

Scheme/LISP(s): 

(1 2 3 4 5)

Java: 

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

J: 

1 2 3 4 5

Prolog: 

[1,2,3,4,5]

All of those are the same list, but they look pretty different. I'm also a little worried about someone taking a solution that does this output checking and using it to mark examples incorrect, but that doesn't seem very likely at all so I'm not that worried--only a little bit. Like I said, it shouldn't keep this from becoming a full task, but people should make sure they think ahead a lot if they try to do this EC. --Mwn3d 17:51, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

yes, that is very true, and the more reason why this is extra credit.--eMBee 18:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Some points

I do have some points for consideration:

  1. Layout of examples: examples have not been created to be auto-run and massaging a wide selection of examples to run could make for too long a program. You might consider something like "Assume that code inside the first <lang> tag below the languages {{header|}} tag is all that need run".
  2. Would this lead to high server load when developing and testing a solution - especially for the extra credit part of the task?
  3. You might want to just have language A download and run examples from language A. Rosetta Code normally allows a task to be fulfilled in one language without necessarily knowing another to any degree, (if at all).

--Paddy3118 18:36, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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