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As I see it, three useful kinds of tasks are (and should be) on Rosetta Code: trivial examples for demonstrating discrete language features, practical examples of how to accomplish ordinary tasks, and more complex examples that show how a given language is used in practice to write nontrivial programs. That allows for a lot of different tasks. (The third category in particular covers everything from [[Roman Numerals]] to [[RCBF]].) But tasks that don't fit neatly into any of those categories probably don't belong here, and tasks that are too similar to be simultaneously useful should be deleted. —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] 17:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
: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)
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