Rosetta Code talk:Village Pump/Suggest a language

Just wanted to note that "Cucumber" is not a language per/se. It is more of an IDE. Like Eclipse is not a language.

About the navigation. It is (most?) common to want to see how X task is done in Y language. For Example I wanted to see how "Associative Arrays" were done in JavaScript. I went to Languages, then JavaScript, looked down the list and clicked "Associative Arrays". I expected to go right to the JavaScript of "Associative Arrays" but instead landed at the TOP of "Associative Arrays". I had to again list my JavaScript preference to get where I wanted. If there was a good search facility, I suppose I could have entered: "JavaScript Associative" and get right there. Could your people spend some time on this issue to save us all some time? Thanks, RobinLRandall@gmail.com

That is a limitation of MediaWiki. It has been discussed here, but we have not had success. If you want to sign up and help us that would be great. As we are now (and for the forseeable future), we rely on volunteers, so it's tough to do much more than "default" with our setup. --Mwn3d 19:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. I was also looking for "Create an Object" for JavaScript and realized "Object-Oriented" Category was a bit hard to find. Until a "Google-like" search mechanism becomes available, a good organization is needed. I was thinking maybe splitting Languages into 1. Legacy Languages 2. Object-Oriented Languages 3. Scripting Languages, etc. Yes, there might be some overlap, but major categories would not be "hidden". I have been trying to help since meeting Michael Mol over the phone. I've been in the industry for 30 years so have about 20 languages under my belt. I'll look into MediaWiki to see what they have. Thanks, RR

That would be great! I would suggest planning your categorization publicly here first. We had a few attempts at categorizing tasks and at least one attempt at categorizing languages (based on features) before. In my opinion the task categorization is an overlapping mess now. At the very least you might find out that some categories are intuitive to you and not others (and maybe the other way). See Rosetta Code:Village Pump for directions on creating a topic -- I would suggest Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Language categories or something. Also you can come and chat about things in the IRC channel if you want, though not all users are active there. Thanks in advance for your help! --Mwn3d 20:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed your Search box in the lower left of the page. I used it and found exactly what I wanted right away! I did have to do an extra click. If only we could go directly to: [[1]|Javascript x Assoc Array] Lower left is the last place your eyes look when scanning. I suggest you make it bigger and put it in the upper right of the page like Media Wiki does. Finding that Search box just made your site about three times friendlier! What can I do to help make that happen? Any HTML wiz can move a field. I'll think about what you said and my language categorization idea. With space free on the left I can add some bullets (cubes?) --rlrandallx22:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)