> Its called necro-posting.
> I'm surprised that post isn't read-only.

Call it like you want, but I ee people putting new answers/comments to years old posts all the times, as it's perfectly legitimate on many blogs and websites.

What was the best answer 10 years ago is often completely wrong nowadays.

Forbidding people to suggest what can easily solve the problem *right now* is what would be silly IMHO.

On Saturday, August 19, 2017 15:17:52 Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > Its called necro-posting.
> > I'm surprised that post isn't read-only.
>
> Call it like you want, but I ee people putting new answers/comments to years old posts all the times, as it's perfectly legitimate on many blogs and websites.
>
> What was the best answer 10 years ago is often completely wrong nowadays.
>
> Forbidding people to suggest what can easily solve the problem *right now* is what would be silly IMHO.

IIRC, there's even a badge for necro-posting. I don't think that I've ever done it though. If I answer a question, it's generally because I specifically went to SO to answer questions, in which case, I'm just looking at the latest ones. I haven't been doing even that much lately though, and answering D questions is pretty much the only reason that I've done much with SO in years. I've rarely found it to be useful for asking the sorts of questions that I have - if nothing else, because anything easy enough to find the answer for by digging around online, I'll find, and anything that's harder is likely to be esoteric enough that no one's going to have the answer for you on SO.

As far as old posts being wrong goes though, it wouldn't surprise me if several of the older answers for D are wrong at this point - or at least could and should be improved - given how much the language and libraries have changed over time.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 02:44:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, August 19, 2017 15:17:52 Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > Its called necro-posting.
>> > I'm surprised that post isn't read-only.
>>
>> Call it like you want, but I ee people putting new answers/comments to years old posts all the times, as it's perfectly legitimate on many blogs and websites.
>>
>> What was the best answer 10 years ago is often completely wrong nowadays.
>>
>> Forbidding people to suggest what can easily solve the problem *right now* is what would be silly IMHO.
>
> IIRC, there's even a badge for necro-posting. I don't think that I've ever done it though.

There are at least 2 different badges for old posting answers

Here my track record in C answers
https://stackoverflow.com/users/146377/patrick-schl%c3%bcter?tab=badges
I'm 12 times necromancer i.e. answered a question older than 60 days with a score higher than 5 and am also an excavator which means that I edited a question or an answer in a post that was inactive for 6 months.
So, editing and answering old questions is encouraged on stackoverflow and imho it is a good thing, nothing is more annoying than googling for a question and only finding answers in old mailing lists that apply only to a compiler/system/language from the '90s.

> So, editing and answering old questions is encouraged on stackoverflow and imho it is a good thing, nothing is more annoying than googling for a question and only finding answers in old mailing lists that apply only to a compiler/system/language from the '90s.

I absolutely agree.

We should not be shy to suggest D on old posts where it's missing despite it's nowadays a very good alternative to C, C++, Python, Ruby, etc.

And D is also a perfect language to teach programming, and that information is often missing when googling on the subject.

That also must be said on the forums, including on existing posts.

On Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 08:45:24 UTC, Rico Decho wrote:
>> So, editing and answering old questions is encouraged on stackoverflow and imho it is a good thing, nothing is more annoying than googling for a question and only finding answers in old mailing lists that apply only to a compiler/system/language from the '90s.
>
> I absolutely agree.
>
> We should not be shy to suggest D on old posts where it's missing despite it's nowadays a very good alternative to C, C++, Python, Ruby, etc.
>
> And D is also a perfect language to teach programming, and that information is often missing when googling on the subject.

Indeed and Ali Çehreli's D book is really a nice tutorial even for people without format programming experience.

>
> That also must be said on the forums, including on existing posts.

Two more answers :

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-get-started-with-programming-What-kind-of-laptop-do-I-need-What-is-the-best-programming-language-for-beginners
https://www.quora.com/Which-should-I-learn-as-my-first-programming-language-C-or-C++

Feel free to vote for my answers if you agree with my advices :)

A few other ones :

https://www.quora.com/Is-C++-the-best-programming-language-to-learn-first
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-programming-languages-that-I-should-learn
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-coding-7
https://www.quora.com/What-should-I-start-with-in-order-to-learn-computer-programming-well-Which-languages-and-any-other-basic-skills-What-are-some-experiences-which-people-have-had

By the way, I think that the D tutorial on TutorialsPoint should be promoted A LOT more on the Dlang.org website.

And even if I agree like everybody that Ali's book is probably the best one around, a website is free and directly accessible to anybody interested in learning programming with D...