Christopher Howard wrote:
> Arthur Corliss wrote:
>> Good luck on your new site! FYI: Perl isn't an interpreted language, it's
>> considered to be a demi-compiled language in that it compiles every script
>> into byte-code which is then executed. For that matter, I think Python
>> moved in that direction as well. Don't know where Ruby stands on the
>> matter.
>
>
> Thanks. To be honest, deciding how to organize the language forums has
> proved to be the most challenging part of setting the site up, and I
> think I'm going to look at reorganizing things again tonight. The
> difficulty is to cover the major language categories without offending
> anyone or multiplying the number of forums ad infinitum.
>
> If you have any suggestions on organization, let me know. My tendency is
> to put Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. in the same forum as they are all
> "scripting languages". But some people don't like that designation
> either. As Shane said, putting the words Perl and Python together on the
> same line of text can make things uncomfortable, but it also seems to go
> to far to give them each their own forum.
>
> Maybe I'll put all languages in one forum and divide it out into a dozen
> or two sub-forums...
>
I think the model of forums needs to go away.. You could probably django
up a nice tag based "forum" of sorts that would be like a one way
twitter of doom for programming discussion.
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