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I'd like to see more language-agnostic questions about general programming-related concepts. I've already tried to do that with a recent Q&A pair: What are the criteria to define if a progra...
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hkotsubo
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2026-03-09T19:03:55Z (6 months ago)
I'd like to see more language-agnostic questions about general programming-related concepts.
> I've already tried to do that with a recent Q&A pair: [What are the criteria to define if a programming language is compiled or interpreted?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/295607).
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Unicode related questions. I guess "_What is Unicode?_" is too broad, we could split it in more specific ones:
- What is an Unicode code point?
- How Unicode defines a character?
- What are encodings?
- What are the normalization forms?
- What's a collation?
Floating point arithmetic:
- Why `0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3` is false?
- What is IEEE 754?
- Why `NaN` is not equal to itself?
Others:
- Paradigms. There's already [What's the difference between Inheritance and Polymorphism?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/282832), but it could expand to:
- What's functional Programming?
- What's Object Oriented Programming?
- And so on (maybe those are too broad and could be split in more specific questions)
- Type systems: difference between static and dynamic typing, strong and weak typing
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Of course those topics might expand to other questions about language-specific uses, but I think that having a more general question would make it clear what parts belong to the broader concept, and what parts are specific to each language.