Locked threads triggers unofficial online solutions

[Slaunger]

I think the locked problem solving threads for many of the older or easier problems is a big problem. Several of them has been locked for years, while new programming languages have appeared, which were not on the list originally, and which are not mentioned in the original problem threads.

For instance, I have recently urged a person here

http://keyzero.wordpress.com/2010/06/16 ... /#comments

to stop publishing solutions in Groovy, but he argues that since the problems threads are locked and Grrovy is new, there is no place for him to discuss Groovy solutions in the official PE pages.

Something which is also discussed here:

http://keyzero.wordpress.com/2009/10/09 ... -approach/

I must admit that I have been annoyed at the locked threads myself. My own emphasis is on doing opposite of brute force, to do efficient programming in Python and show it can be fast for solving many problems if you do it right. I have on several occasions implemented solutions which are many-fold faster than alternative Python solutions published on the locked problem threads, and I would like to share them such that other users could learn from them (and because I am proud of them), but there is nowhere official I can do that.

I would suggest to open all solved problem threads again .

Yes I know that could grow very large, but so what? If you do not want to skim through all the pages you do not have to, but if you are interested in digging why not?

Opening the threads could remove some of the arguments used by people who publishes solutions to the public.

Best wishes,
Slaunger