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Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> First off, I wouldn't worry about the purists getting their panties all
> bunched up about how their language is categorized. The danger you have
> have to worry first about in operating a forum is too many categories. No
> one is going to browse all of them, and even less likely to browse those
> that seem extremely low traffic. Plus, how many real programmers know just
> one language.
>
> Once you have a language dominating a forum then it's a good idea to branch
> out. Don't cater to the pedagogues. Odds are they won't be the most
> productive members of your forum, anyway.
>
> I'm a Perl hacker, but I don't take offense at Perl being considered a
> scripting language. You could, I guess, categorize them as low-level
> languages (like C), mid-level (like Perl), and high-level languages (like
> Java).
>
>> Maybe I'll put all languages in one forum and divide it out into a dozen
>> or two sub-forums...
>
> And grow the sub forums as necessary.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
I ended up putting a lot of the more popular languages as sub-forums
inside an "application languages" forum. I'll watch the "other
languages" sub-forum closely, and if a language is getting a lot of
traffic I'll turn it into a new sub-forum.
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