Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:53:05 06/28/00
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On June 28, 2000 at 12:46:55, KarinsDad wrote: >On June 27, 2000 at 19:10:49, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>It's too far off-topic, and in any case the responses already given are >>sufficient to assist the person who originally asked the question. >> >>Thanks, >>Dave > >Just as a curiosity, why is it that every time someone posts a programming or >coding type question which isn't asking about move generation or hash tables, it >is considered off topic? > >Seems to me that programming is related to computer chess as much as how many >NPSs a given chess program has on a given CPU (talk about totally worthless >information). > >KarinsDad :) Disregarding your IMO incorrect universal quanitification, and concentrating on this specific instance, how to learn a programming language is no more on-topic here than how to learn to play chess. I do have sympathy for questions that might be perceived as off-topic when there are not other obvious places to ask them, e.g. if somebody asks something like what othello programs are commercially available, you won't see me complaining. But questions like "what's the best linux distribution", or "what's the best book to read to start learning how to program in language X" are both readily answerable and frequently answered elsewhere on the internet. Asking that stuff in here is sort of the electronic equivalent of littering -- people are wont to casually discard the odd chocolate bar wrapper, but if the custodians permit it regularly then the green grass will be covered with it. Dave
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