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I'll work on any of this you want me to; I just didn't want to change what you did without a discussion. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 00:36, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
:Yeah, removing {task} makes sense. I wasn't going to bother with renames, since the pages will rapidly shrink and then turn into redirects to [[
:I'm happy this merge is finally happening. I suggested it almost two years ago! --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 14:19, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
== {obscure} tag ==
I actually like your idea of an {obscure} tag. Though some language communities may not like it, I still think it could be applied to languages whose communities don't oppose it. It could probably work like the needs-review template, but maybe with a check for languages whose communities oppose it? We may need a bot to clean up examples that have been tagged obscure when the language doesn't want to use the template. It may be too complicated to do stuff like that, but I think the idea is a good start. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 22:03, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Maybe {please-explain} would be more constructive? The tag would be an invitation to explain the code further. The person taking up the invitation might add a few comments to the code, or a full explanation on a separate page (Talk or sub-page). --[[User:Tikkanz|Tikkanz]] 22:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
:Sure. Really, it is just another mechanism to improve examples and aid language learning, like our other maintenance templates. Maybe it would be better to put these kinds of templates on the Talk pages, since it is more like meta-discussion. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 23:19, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
:"Please explain" definitely has a nicer (more diplomatic) feel to it. I think more communities would go for that. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 17:52, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
== [[True/False_Values#SNUSP]] ==
Hi, isn't there a problem with this exemple?
The pointer starts at the dolar, then the first char is a lurd, so the pointer turns in the upper direction where there is nothing.
:Fixed, thanks. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 15:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
== PL/I vs PL/1 ==
Ian,
I don't really care, but changing my user page to correct "PL/1" to "PL/I" seems rather nit-picky to me. Especially when either usage is acceptable.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/pli-faq/
The Usenet newsgroup is, in fact, called "pl1". Answers.com allows for either.
Finally, the compiler I used at UMD was called @PL1 not @PLI.
Aren't there larger problems to be working on? Like, actually accomplishing some of the undone programming tasks?
== Welcome back! ==
Good to see you back, sir. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] ([[User talk:Mwn3d|talk]]) 17:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
== MSSQL v. Transact-SQL ==
[[MSSQL]] History reports you redirected MSSQL to Category:Transact-SQL. I don't use MSSQL, but I'm trying to understand Rosetta Code's structure.
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As indicated, [[MSSQL]] redirects to [[:Category:Transact-SQL]]. Both have "/Omit", "examples needing attention", "Implementations", and "User" pages in the Category: namespace. I'm trying to determine if all the Category:MSSQL* pages should be redirected to the equivalent Category:Transact-SQL* pages.
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--[[User:GarveyPatrickD|GarveyPatrickD]] ([[User talk:GarveyPatrickD|talk]]) 16:14, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
:I don't recall why I made this redirect twelve years ago! I can only guess that I thought MS SQL and Transact-SQL were synonymous since they are both Microsoft variants on SQL. Please don't take me as any authority on the matter. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] ([[User talk:IanOsgood|talk]]) 17:48, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
::OK, you're not an authority on MSSQL v. Transact-SQL. How well do you understand Rosetta Code's copy of MediaWiki? If I were to replace, for instance, Category:MSSQL_User with a redirect to Category:Transact-SQL_User, would that change the result of LordMike's and Turtlezero's "My Favorite Languages" displayed list? --[[User:GarveyPatrickD|GarveyPatrickD]] ([[User talk:GarveyPatrickD|talk]]) 20:41, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
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