Author: stuart taylor
Date: 01:25:33 06/29/00
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On June 28, 2000 at 15:53:05, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 I've been wanting to ask this for some time now. I regularly read and post on a discussion forum about violin playing - called Maestronet/Fingerboard, which although it is moderated, I don't know if moderators have stepped in almost ever. And it runs very smoothly and is also 100% decent. But there are some threads like "where do you live"? "What age"? And "getting to know some of you a bit better" etc. Would this be absolutely disqualified over here? if so why? S.Taylor
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