I am posting this question just to get a better understanding of
the questions that can be asked on Stack Overflow.  I find that
Language Books/Tutorials for popular languages can several
answers based on users opinion and cause a discussion.  Why is
this a good question when several other requests for books and
tutorials are not acceptable?  share|improve this question I'm
surprised it hasn't gotten a historical lock yet. –  Mysticial
Aug 30 '12 at 2:40 stackoverflow.com/questions/252985/… -
Another similar link, there are many more ... –  Max Aug 30 '12
at 2:45 It's fairly simple: the site guidelines have changed
over time. Questions that were permitted 4 years ago are not
necessarily welcome today. –  Aaron Bertrand Aug 30 '12 at 3:58
add comment  2 Answers  If you explore the archives, you'll
notice a lot of these types of questions. Just browsing the top
5 all-time rep users' top questions/answers turned up these,
which would all be considered bad questions on today's Stack
Overflow:  You'll notice that