A CodersWorlds or ProgrammersWorlds?

Asking if there a similar community for general programming

[picophd]

Greetings,

I wanna know if there is a similar community or forums to WebmasterWorld, but with geniuses in the software engineering, coding, and programming fields generally, not necessarily in web applications and coding for the web.

Thanks for anyone taking the time to give directions and tips.

[Brett_Tabke]

Not really. There are some commercial ones out there, but the only real traction is in the open source communities.

[picophd]

Thanks, Brett. I'll try to search using open source community keywords, I guess.

Hope bestBBS gets out soon, by the way, to be applied with super speeds. I'm not very satisfied with the speeds of most of the BBS I found, so far.

[picophd]

I was wondering: what languages or scripts are used to develop bestBBS?

[elgumbo]

picophd, there was some discussion a while back about this. Take a look at [webmasterworld.com...] - might help.

[picophd]

Oh yeah, I started that topic myself! Thanks, elgumbo. I haven't noticed at all the last message by Brett there.

I already knew that WW relies on flat files, but what I wasn't sure about is what programming language is used for bestBBS.

From reading the last post by Brett there I realized it's Perl. However, Brett said the only way to go faster is C or ideally Machine Language. ML, man? Who can do that anyway?

The fastest BBS I've seen in my life, so far, and it IS super fast, is Daydream, developed entirely using AL, Assembly Language, by some Finnish team. But ML? Seriously, is there anyone today who would do something like that?

Besides, and this is a very important question to me actually, how would "administering" such a BBS be like afterwards? I mean if you do program a BBS using Assembly language (or even ML!?), how would anyone else be able to administer such a BBS? Wouldn't it require some kind of rare administering skill in AL? How about the databasing? Would it still be possible to hook the BBS up with MySQL databases and such?

I'd really appreciate it if I could get a few answers to these questions. Thanks for anyone taking the time to give tips and information.

[freeflight2]

there are tons of such sites out there - most, if not all of them are lacking good moderation and none of them made the next step of establishing conferences/pubcon which IMHO makes WebmasterWorld extremely valueable.
There's also one very populuar site in particular which gives away "points" for correct answers but unfortunately they put too many ads all over the pages.

[picophd]

I see what your point. I'm wondering, though, is there something particular about developing by AL or ML that eventually keeps these folks from establishing conferences? Or are you referring generally to the degree of the success of these guys with their methods/programming languages, compared to the degree of WW's success with Perl & Flat Files?

[elgumbo]

Oh yeah, I started that topic myself! Thanks, elgumbo.

lol I missed that :)

[picophd]

lol I missed that :)

Hehe...no worries. I know you guys probably have zillions of things to do and people to help. :)