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:Thanks, I've learned something more today. So maybe keep '''a''' DateTime version, together with a note that it is on CPAN and that built-in Time::Local is not being used due to these problems on 32 bit machines? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 23:50, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
:I don't at all like examples and snippets being removed from RC, as long as the code is legal (copyright caveat, etc). That said, with the site's current organization, I can understand why it would be a problem if there were thirty examples for Ayrch for each task, but only a relatively small number for other languages.
:Rosetta Code's core mission approach is helping people learn tool X by looking at tool X applied alongside more familiar tools Y and Z. A tool can be a language, a library, a programming paradigm or a language features (consider the scenario of showing how to do memory-management relevant things in a language with ''optional'' garbage collection). To that end, it's practical to apply learning-by-comparison within a language, such as demonstrating '''for''' against '''foreach''' against '''map'''.
:"Picking whatever method you like" is a matter for the individual contributor and the individual user of the language, but when Rosetta Code is being used as a learning resource, it becomes important to avoid hiding language capabilities.
:Again, I can understand why that could be a problem, given the way the site is currently structured with monolithic task pages. Migrating toward the Semantic MediaWiki feature set should allow us to clean and organize things in a more fine-grained fashion, such as by allowing individual code examples to be tagged with the language features they exploit. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:54, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
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