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Revision as of 22:57, 22 January 2007 by 62.252.32.16 (talk) (Things needed)

This site desperately needs syntax highlighting. I strongly suggest using geshi with the mediawiki extension (it's in the svn extensions dir). See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7163 --en:Yurik --67.151.90.174 12:49, 21 January 2007 (PST)

Things needed

1) A village pump type page (like wikipedia has) where this kind of stuff can be put

2) Better segregation of language types. For instance, is LaTeX really a programming language? As a markup language, it's as much a programming language as HTML is IMO. (Of course, HTML could be added instead), should completely different codes be on their own page?

3) Better guidelines as to what code should be placed. Is something that will run on it's own required, or just enough lines to complete the task (for instance, the part of a C++ program which will print "goodbye world" is: std::cout "goodbye world\n"; but that wouldn't compile on its own. On the other hand a BASIC compiler (or interpreter) will complete the task with: print "goodbye world", but it wouldn't really be a complete program (missing a line number and 'end' or 'system' at the end). So should people place: Only the code that completes the requirements? or; Enough code to get it to compile, dependent on how lax the compiler in question is? or; A program that is completed to specifications and accomplishes the task?

4) A copy of (or a link to) the GFDL1.2 that is easily visible.

62.252.32.16 17:57, 22 January 2007 (EST)

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