Re: Visibility of code-like sections...

You must new around here :)

Brother deprecated delved into this issue many years ago in excruciating detail. Much of what he says remains valid today.

There has been a minor improvement over the years though: there used to be another section called Craft which... also contained code!

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Re^2: Visibility of code-like sections... by blazar (Canon) on Jul 12, 2007 at 08:16 UTC
You must new around here :) As new as Nov 23, 2004 at 11:45 GMT-2... Brother deprecated delved into this issue many years ago in excruciating detail. Much of what he says remains valid today. Interesting reading! In fact that article focuses on the same bias I noticed and then brings about a discussion of wider breath about the Monastery, but you're right: "much of what he says remains valid today." In particular I feel like quoting him when he writes: post your code, even if you think it sucks. because I want to read it and learn. Or maybe I want to correct you and have ~~tilly~~ someone correct me on my correction. but code eq growth. and growth is good for everyone. (The "correction" is mine.) Yet, I think that as I wrote elsewhere in this thread this is a social issue, and technology can't solve social issue. But... it can help! So I'm still convinced both that at least in principle something could be done to correct the bias and that it would be a good thing to do from the POV of general benefit for the community, along the lines of: applying huffmanization and rationalization: merging the various code-sections into one, as suggested by Scott7477; implementing a functional tagging system as suggested by Argel and desired by many other notable members of this community, like jdporter - one would have both "official", distinguished tags like `qw/snippet cufp application/`, and custom ones about the actual subject matter, e.g. `'sort'`; entries from the single code section should be allowed to be frontpaged too, as desired by several people here, perhaps along with a toc on top of the page, as suggested by Argel again. And a kind of toc that would put stuff from the various sections just as much on the same level as possible... Side note: just yesterday I posted two snippets which are admittedly minimal. One consists of two lines of code showing a sort technique. Is it crap? I seem to notice that sorting questions get asked quite often, notwithstanding the tutorials. It has now a reputation of -1. Funnily enough, a direct reply to it which I posted myself to expand a little bit on the subject has a reputation of 2. It's a tiny contribution and I didn't expect tons of votes. But then I wonder how many it would have gained, had I put a random error in and posted it to SoPW under a title like "sort problem". Similarly the other one is a single Perl 6 statement already running under Pugs that shows in a concise manner four features of the language. Reputation 0: complete crap too?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Visibility of code-like sections...
by blazar (Canon) on Jul 12, 2007 at 08:16 UTC

You must new around here :)

As new as Nov 23, 2004 at 11:45 GMT-2...

Brother deprecated delved into this issue many years ago in excruciating detail. Much of what he says remains valid today.

Interesting reading! In fact that article focuses on the same bias I noticed and then brings about a discussion of wider breath about the Monastery, but you're right: "much of what he says remains valid today." In particular I feel like quoting him when he writes:

post your code, even if you think it sucks. because I want to read it and learn. Or maybe I want to correct you and have ~~tilly~~ someone correct me on my correction. but code eq growth. and growth is good for everyone.

(The "correction" is mine.)

Yet, I think that as I wrote elsewhere in this thread this is a social issue, and technology can't solve social issue. But... it can help! So I'm still convinced both that at least in principle something could be done to correct the bias and that it would be a good thing to do from the POV of general benefit for the community, along the lines of:

applying huffmanization and rationalization: merging the various code-sections into one, as suggested by Scott7477;
implementing a functional tagging system as suggested by Argel and desired by many other notable members of this community, like jdporter - one would have both "official", distinguished tags like qw/snippet cufp application/, and custom ones about the actual subject matter, e.g. 'sort';
entries from the single code section should be allowed to be frontpaged too, as desired by several people here, perhaps along with a toc on top of the page, as suggested by Argel again. And a kind of toc that would put stuff from the various sections just as much on the same level as possible...

Side note: just yesterday I posted two snippets which are admittedly minimal. One consists of two lines of code showing a sort technique. Is it crap? I seem to notice that sorting questions get asked quite often, notwithstanding the tutorials. It has now a reputation of -1. Funnily enough, a direct reply to it which I posted myself to expand a little bit on the subject has a reputation of 2. It's a tiny contribution and I didn't expect tons of votes. But then I wonder how many it would have gained, had I put a random error in and posted it to SoPW under a title like "sort problem". Similarly the other one is a single Perl 6 statement already running under Pugs that shows in a concise manner four features of the language. Reputation 0: complete crap too?

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