Re: meaningfully/compellingly “advertising” Ada on StackOverflow

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 9:35:25 AM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:27:12 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
> > One thing to help Ada “cross the chasm” would be for each of the how-can-I-do-this-in-Ada questions posted here on c.l.a to also be posted in StackOverflow with (at least) the tag Ada.  Of course, there does exist some overlap of participants here on c.l.a with Ada participants in StackOverflow, but conversely there do exist some StackOverflow users who are knowledgable about Ada (or are genuinely-open-mindedly curious about Ada to have already explored Ada) who never or rarely visit c.l.a.
> > 
> > But the A#1 primary goal to accomplish regarding the posting of juicy/revealing questions about Ada code is for strangers who are full-fledged Ada-hater and Ada-agnostic and what-is-this-Ada-that-I-have-never-heard-of people to see actual Ada code that is beautiful and expressive and accomplishing real-world goals, reacting with:
> 
> You have to get them reading the ada tags first.

Chicken & egg problem.  But there do exist people over at StackOverflow who browse the newest-questions regardless of tags.  (That is how I first found out about Rust being far far more interesting than Go:  many of Rust's questions were compelling from a safety perspective, whereas many of  Go's questions were more in the how-do-I-write-Algol60-or-1990s-era-C++/Java-concepts-in-Go's-yet-again-different-for-no-good-reason-syntax ilk.)