The issues with the types of questions you ask go much deeper than this Ada question. It's just a symptom of a larger problem: It seems like you don't understand the types of questions that are acceptable on Stack Overflow.
I'm going to assume you went through and read the How to Ask Pages thoroughly, and that we didn't communicate very well what our expectations are.
Let's go over your deleted questions first:
Python CGI Problems password sent in plaintext
This question wasn't too bad; but it was closed as off topic because the community felt you didn't understand the problem well enough to be able to understand any answer to it. That particular close reason has been controversial in the past, so I'm re-opening and undeleting your question to give you a chance to address the issues and improve your question.
simple 64 bit example
This question was a bit unclear. What do you need? Why do you need it? What has kept you from compiling a "Hello World" example on the internet for x64 and then looking at its output in a Hex Editor? You deleted it, but you didn't have to -- if you could improve the question to address my points above (and even having a specific question about what you need after you've followed the steps I've lined up), it could be a good question.
Ada vs Pascal for General Systems Programming
This question skipped a few hundred logical steps. It essentially says, "I compiled this Ada program, and it was twice as big as my Pascal program, so which one should my team use?" I hope you've read up on what questions not to ask, because this is definitely off topic as "Primarily opinion based." You really can't resolve this question because it's just not in scope for this site, no matter what you do. Again, the How to Ask page would have told you this (I can only assume we didn't communicate that very well. How can we communicate that better?)
Need Help on Perl Program
This question suffers from a few problems:
The title is very vague. Can you imagine anyone ever typing that title into Google?
This question can never be useful because one of the first steps we ask you to take is to actually try to compile the program and run it yourself. Since you can't do that here, you're asking us to do it for you and show you the output. Since you can't seem to do that here, shouldn't your question be about fixing the issue so that you can compile this program and see its output yourself?
To improve this question:
Fix the title
Clean up the spelling and grammatical structure of the post
Tell us why you can't compile this, and that should be the focus of the question, not us compiling it for you.
If you're encountering an error, make it very clear what the error is; try to run the code with the -V syntax and make sure to put use warnings; and use strict; at the top of your perl script.
Getting INI information from perl
This is almost a good question. Some things you could do to make it better:
Tell us what you need, what you've tried, and why it's not working.
Fix the spelling and grammatical issues in the post. This means to spend some time improving the text of your post.
Opengl FASM Tutorial
The question (Asking for an off site resource) is off topic for our site -- again, I think the How to Ask should have made this clear (but please tell me if it didn't, and how we could improve that messaging). To improve this question, you should do the following:
The title needs work. It should describe your problem as someone who would search for this issue on the internet would look for it.
What are you attempting to do? What's not working about it? Try to implement it, and come in with a specific question (that isn't asking for an off site resource). In this case, it could be something like (don't just use my text):
I'm trying to render a triangle using FASM in OpenGL. Here's the code I have for rendering the triangle below. It doesn't seem to actually render, and this leads me to believe I don't really understand OpenGL FASM rendering. How do I render a triangle in OpenGL using FASM?
error in Javascript
Again, the title. Will someone really search for "Error in JavaScript" and expect to find anything meaningful? In this case your error message is more helpful, and that could likely be most of the title. That would make it more useful to future visitors as well (although you're still stuck with the problem that you miss-cased "function", causing your issue.
Java + GTK Hello World
The title is a little better -- but could be expanded. "I need a hello world example in Java and GTK". Besides the title issue; the question itself is a problem. Why is Stack Overflow your first place to go to for this? I'm sure somewhere on the internet has an example. If you're having a specific problem with Java and GTK, ask that question.
Looking over your questions, here are a few generic pointers:
- Stack Overflow is not a hammer for every programming question in the world. It feels like you are jumping on Stack Overflow first thing, instead of taking a step back and doing a little bit of research. It shows in how you ask your questions: Some are rushed and sloppily written, and some just say, "Give this to me."
If there's some messaging we can do to improve why we think your questions were poorly formed or how we could have messaged better on the "How to Ask" and its related pages, let me know. I want that to be as clear as possible. If however you didn't read it, then you probably should.
I'll see what I can do from my end, but overall, you can fix these issues with your questions, it's just going to take some time, some research, and some improvements in how you phrase your questions.
Good luck.
