There seem to be some topics around about the comparsion of programming languages for different kinds.
Some land in "language agnostic programming" some in "other languages".

My proposal is to create a new forum for such comparsions with strong posting rules so that it is clearly visible from the topic:

• Which programming languages are to be compared
• What the "comparsion operator" is. For example: general library availability, support for specific tasks (GL for ex.), overall performance (computer languages benchmarks game!), portability, etc...

This should make it lots easier for people looking for orientation in the jungle of programming languages

Henning

Sounds good!

Maybe something more general - something big enough to encompass vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, my OS vs your OS, my religion vs your religion, my favourite colour vs your favourite colour. etc

My personal peeve is when the language agnostic forum is used for language comparisons.

This is just rambling, which does not either endorse nor unendorse the original post.

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More of that would be nice, but more of that will not be just because of a new forum! .... I'm afraid.

The debate forum doesn't get used much as is. No point in making a forum dedicated to a specific debate topic.

Religion topics are frowned upon here. "Agree to disagree" kind of thing. Also the whole point of the debate forum is for discussions like you've pointed out.

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Except that programming is much more relevant to game development. These types of debates are only annoying when they show up in the wrong forum. I agree with Seoushi in that this belongs in the debate forum. But it's still useful to bring out each language's strong and weak points, since it's obviously something that is on people's minds.

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Ok, the subject was a little in that direction but seriously I didn't talk about those "what do you like best" thingies.

What I meant where real question/answer things.
Stupid example:
Subject: Programming language for mobile games
Text:
I heard lots of people use java for mobile phone games,
but a friend told me he prefers assembler for that task.
What are the pros/cons of each?

But I agree with you that these postings might be rare enough that a special forum wouldnt be worth it. So nevermeind