On 20/03/2013 13:05, Dave Cross wrote:
Secondly, I don't think anyone was suggesting we remove the Perl page
from WP, rather that we make one the main page and the other point to
it. In effect having both pages/solutions at once and having our cake
and eating it too.
That what we currently have. "Perl (Programming Language)" is a
redirect to "Perl". That's how it should be. The proposal is to
reverse the direction of the redirection - so "Perl" redirects to
"Perl (Programming Language)". That is contrary to the way that
Wikipedia is supposed to work.
c.f.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript
All programming languages that don't feel the need to say so in the
primary URL. Why should we feel the need to pander to those languages
that foolishly picked a common word as their name ?
It ain't broke - no need to fix it.
S.
