Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Task creation process discussion: Difference between revisions

The new [[J]] and [[Python]] contributors are creating lots of new tasks in preference to solving existing tasks. Should we be providing guidance on the types of tasks suitable for Rosetta Code? Here are my ideas, feel free to contradict.

* Rosetta Code is about language ''comparison''. We should encourage solving existing tasks in preference to creating new tasks.

:::I think a better title for Object Serialization might be "Saving/loading program state" and an example that allows many types of language to provide examples. Whilst you might strive for program paradigm neutrality, I still think it would be useful to have tasks that are naturally trivial in some class of languages - say constraints, or bit manipulation.

:::Since we are comparing languages although the task description may describe an algorithm to use, if your language has a feature that is normally used you might be justified in using the built-in feature with an explanation as well as, or instead of, the algorithm asked for. For example, it would be a shame if someone reading the quicksort task went away thinking that it was THE way to sort in Python/Perl/Ruby etc.. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 16:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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)