Talk:RC POP.OUT: Difference between revisions

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'''RC_POP.REX''' &nbsp; is the name of the REXX program.

The (or my) REXX program isn't making any decision. &nbsp; It uses two files for input:

::* &nbsp; Categories &nbsp; &nbsp; {http://www.rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=5000)}

::* &nbsp; Category:Programming_Languages &nbsp; &nbsp; {http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages}

It scans the 1^st file for (any) categories, and each category is checked against the 2^nd file to verify that it is a computer programming language known to Rosetta Code. &nbsp; If it passes the verification, &nbsp; then it's a computer language that is used on Rosetta Code, &nbsp; and the number of entries (programming examples) is taken from the &nbsp; '''members''' &nbsp; keyword. &nbsp; No distinction or decision was made on my part or the REXX program's part.

I suspect that various peoples used one name instead of the other (interchangeably).

If someone with god-like powers would make an executive decision to use one over the other, I suppose someone would write a script to change all the uses of one computer programming language into the other, or I could special case this specific example &nbsp; (for the REXX programming entry) &nbsp; into just simply combining those two programming entries into one, &nbsp; much like the way it currently handles different spellings of a small number of computer programming languages that are spelled differently, or use different glyphs the express the small programming language. &nbsp; &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:57, 10 February 2019 (UTC)