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Hi Siskus:   Please refrain from marking descriptions in REXX entries as "novice" and let people more familiar with the REXX programming language pass judgement on whether or not it was entered by a novice.   I've been noticing that you are sniping at various REXX programming language entries and have never responded to any queries by me or others concerning your inflammatory and sometime destructive behavior regarding said language.   If you could be more specific in your comments and justify your actions instead of just flagging some REXX entries in a capricious manner, including marking numerous REXX entries as '''omit''' even though there was an existing REXX solution.   Marking a language as/for '''omit''' when there is already a solution entered or marking it as such when one doesn't know the capability of a language is just inappropriate.   I know the REXX programming language very well and I would never mark any task as inappropriate for the REXX language, there are always programmers that can find a solution to most tasks.   I certainly wouldn't mark a programming language as '''omit''' when I barely know the language. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 01:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

: wholeheartedly seconded. can you tell us what you meant by your (inappropriate?) flagging and/or provide a better "solution" to this task? --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 07:02, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

:: It seems to me that the author of the task is not "hindered by any knowledge". For as I know, REXX has NO garbage collector. Take also in account that the writer makes ill-formed metadata (causing problems on other browsers then MS Internet Explorer) without knowing the difference between a breaking and non-breaking space (as shown in the <code>_<space></code> and several double space), then the contributor must be a novice.

 

: Er, no, Siskus. &nbsp; That isn't a valid reason to mandate that a language ''has to be omitted from such tasks''. &nbsp; The REXX language has no trigonometric, hyperbolic, or logarithms (or for that matter, even a square root function or a power function), but that isn't a reason to mark REXX to be omitted for that lack of features. &nbsp; I differ with you on how to deal with ''missing'' functionality. &nbsp; That's what programming languages do, if a language can use the host's functions, they can take advantage of that interface to perform a specific task; that's what an operating system is used for (among other things). &nbsp; Exactly what is the distorted picture of which you speak? -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:36, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

 

::: looking at the task's description it seems to me that Scala is not really addressing it and neither is REXX. Anyway, calling a Rexx expert "novice" is an inappropriate insult. We all try to teach and learn and avoid calling colleagues names. --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 18:49, 20 August 2014 (UTC)