From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:9591:: with SMTP id x139-v6mr1021145iod.106.1526483212528; Wed, 16 May 2018 08:06:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:830:: with SMTP id 45-v6mr55928oty.7.1526483212330; Wed, 16 May 2018 08:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!85.12.16.69.MISMATCH!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!v8-v6no1062607itc.0!news-out.google.com!f20-v6ni5232itd.0!nntp.google.com!u74-v6no1065355itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 08:06:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1eeacf5a-b527-4572-8879-0e1d5dfba9d0@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.233.194; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.233.194 References: <6420bab2-0aef-4d36-b978-525e4de45e7e@googlegroups.com> <1eeacf5a-b527-4572-8879-0e1d5dfba9d0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6639be07-e431-4455-af96-7fef5725acab@googlegroups.com> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_meaningfully=2Fcompellingly_=E2=80=9Cadvertising=E2=80=9D_Ada_?= =?UTF-8?Q?on_StackOverflow?= From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 15:06:52 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2968 X-Received-Body-CRC: 23502502 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52371 Date: 2018-05-16T08:06:52-07:00 List-Id: 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 =E2=80=9Ccross the chasm=E2=80=9D would be for ea= ch of the how-can-I-do-this-in-Ada questions posted here on c.l.a to also b= e posted in StackOverflow with (at least) the tag Ada. Of course, there do= es exist some overlap of participants here on c.l.a with Ada participants i= n StackOverflow, but conversely there do exist some StackOverflow users who= are knowledgable about Ada (or are genuinely-open-mindedly curious about A= da to have already explored Ada) who never or rarely visit c.l.a. > >=20 > > But the A#1 primary goal to accomplish regarding the posting of juicy/r= evealing 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 peo= ple to see actual Ada code that is beautiful and expressive and accomplishi= ng real-world goals, reacting with: >=20 > 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 foun= d out about Rust being far far more interesting than Go: many of Rust's qu= estions were compelling from a safety perspective, whereas many of Go's qu= estions were more in the how-do-I-write-Algol60-or-1990s-era-C++/Java-conce= pts-in-Go's-yet-again-different-for-no-good-reason-syntax ilk.)