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:: Yes, but the example problem specified to be solved by the algorithm can be abstracted into a more general task. (In Ethiopian Multiplication, the more general task would be to multiply two integers. Trivial in most languages, but so are the control flow tasks. In the case of linked lists, the more generalized form might be a mutable sequence/container.) I don't see a problem with that. It also allows languages to note on one page that, no, ''this isn't the way you should do it'', and then ''point'' to a more appropriate solution for some part of the problem. That's a recurring gripe I've seen on this wiki and elsewhere about some of the poor-fit-but-not-impossible lang/task intersections. I've also seen people question whether or not the more-idiomatic-but-not-task-conformative examples as being on the task pages. This gives those examples somewhere more appropriate to go. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 15:50, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
::: so... do you think my hierarchical suggestion would be a good or bad way of addressing this issue? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 15:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
:::: TBH, TLDNR, and there may have been elements of an SEP field; I'm not so focused on implementation details as end result, so I try to let RC users figure things out. What you're describing with the hierarchy sounds like a simple transformation of what I was thinking, but I'd stop short of forcing the automatic creation of parent tasks when the itch at hand is a particular algorithm or solve a particular scenario. It forces too much empty space too quickly for the few contributors who work at implementing ''everything'', and the site already has a bit of a problem with the number of tasks with unnecessarily-small example sets (A task that doesn't contain a language the viewer is familiar with isn't helpful for comparative purposes.). Does that make sense? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 18:49, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
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