Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Extraneous Printing Requirements in Tasks: Difference between revisions

|summary=Several tasks require printing incidental output, which distracts from the purpose of the task and needlessly inhibits idiomatic solutions in certain paradigms.

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The aim of Rosettacode is "to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another". However, a number of tasks include extraneous printing requirements which make it impossible to construct elegant, idiomatic solutions in certain paradigms: these tacked on requirements limit our ability to write facilitating and interesting comparison between relevant similarities and differences of certain languages; it also needlessly complicates the comparison of different approaches to core problem.

 

 

Would it be okay with people if I were to go ahead and make these edits? In that case, should I first propose these edits in the discussion pages for each task, or is this (as it seems to me) an obvious enough improvement that I can just go ahead and make the change?