If you don't understand AnyLogic and if AnyLogic doesn't look like any programming experience you have had before, it's probably not programming at all? That's nonsense, and it is proven by the fact that the very questions you showed as "problematic" are questions that actually require at least one line of Java programming:Įxample 1 makes use of the AnyLogic API as roadNetworkDescriptor.size() if this is not programming, what is it?Įxample 2 has explicit Java, so I don't even know why you put it as an example to support your case. but this is an argument from ignorance fallacy. You might see screenshots that look very foreign to any non-AnyLogic user, and these screenshots look like an IDE that is not related to programming. Now, your point might seem valid when you talk about visual interface. AnyLogic is 99% programming and questions about how to use the interface are extremely rare and not even worth addressing. So my final conclusion (and my ask as a passionate AnyLogic community member) is to not mess with this tag and remove years of value add.Īlmost all AnyLogic questions, even if they do not have any programming stated in the question itself, have a potential programming answer using either Java or the AnyLogic API. If were to apply this logic to all other existing tags, I believe that Stack Overflow will be worse off. We should also ask ourselves if this logic were to be applied to all other tags if this would be beneficial? Think about the hundreds of of thousands of Excel questions that are not about programming but about the interface, or about some formula in a cell (Strickly not a programming activity) In my honest opinion, it would be not only harmful but a complete waste of our scarcest resources, time and attention. Would "cleaning" the tag be helpful or harmful? And how does it align with the ethos and overall objective of Stack Overflow? Our biggest question to the OP would be the following: So in the end we are "in the right place to ask" the questions we are asking. "a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software development"Īnd since most of our questions contain "a bit of source code in them" we also adhere to the "best Stack Overflow questions" as dictated by the second sentence in the article. This we meet the Stack Overflow requirement of "software tools commonly used by programmers"Īnd since we have many many years of successfully answered questions (1.9k questions in total over about 10 years) We can say that we also adhere to the last point. Since we both agree that AnyLogic uses Java as a scripting language we can agree that it not only uses one of the most common programming languages for users to create code, but also the final simulation model is a Java program. …then you’re in the right place to ask your question!
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