[depricated]

Maybe I'm missing this on the site. A lot of problems I've had in the past weren't specific to a particular language. Sure, there have been things like "why isn't my drag & drop firing in VB.NET" but often I have more generalized questions that could be answered in any language.

Is it preferred that we use a particular language forum for the sake of not having to ask what language they're working in?

I'm thinking something along the lines of "what have I done wrong in this formula" - still show your work, but maybe your problem doesn't boil down to a nuance of the language. Maybe it's math, or constructing a particular data structure or design pattern.

Anyway, occurred to me. I want to discuss an algorithm that's troubling my brain but the language doesn't really matter - I'm going to implement it in applications written in VB.NET, PHP, Java, and Objective-C, so...

[depricated]

aaaaaaaaaaaaand it already exists. Software Development.

http://www.dreaminco...re-development/

[andrewsw]

A senior member may clarify policy, but there is the Software Development forum, which has a Computer-Science sub-forum. There are a couple of others they may prove appropriate, depending on the specific question.

If the language doesn't matter then there is the option to choose a language, and provide relevant sample-code in that language. You could mention that it doesn't have to be in that particular language (the topic is likely to be moved anyway, if it is in the wrong place).

I suspect that the problem is, if there were a "General Programming" forum, then all the newcomers (who struggle to even find their language's forum!) will post in it, and members would spend a lot of time correcting them and moving (even more) topics around.

This post has been edited by andrewsw: 03 February 2014 - 06:28 AM

[depricated]

Yep - I was just overlooking the Software Development forum that's exactly what I had in mind, really.