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:Those three categories cover a lot of tasks. Are there any on here that you think don't fit into those categories (just as an example to help specify). --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 17:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
::Here are a few: [[Apply a callback to an Array]], [[Polynomial Fitting]], [[Sum of squares]], [[Search for a User in Active Directory]]. What these tasks lack is a clear sense of purpose, compared to similar tasks. For instance, [[Sum of squares]] is a pretty superficial variant of [[Sum and product of array]]; the chief difference isn't even the squaring, but the use of the word "array", since arrays aren't the simplest sort of data structure in some languages (like Haskell). —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] 23:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
:::I think Apply a callback was basically "send (or simulate sending) a function as an argument" and that's a pretty discrete language feature. Polynomial fitting seems more like one of those third category tasks (nontrivials). I see how the active directory one doesn't fit..I never quite understood that one. Sum of squares does seem like a duplicate of sum and product, but there was a long discussion about that one already that I don't want to relive. It seems like it'd be a second category task (ordinary). Am I thinking about this incorrectly? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 00:18, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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