Ada in polluted WWW searches

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

One of the complications of searching for solutions to challenges regarding Ada (as well as job postings needing Ada skills & experience) is the fact that Ada matches ADA, the initialism for both the Americans with Disabilities Act and the American Dental Association.  When searching for Ada, a vast treasure trove of topics for the physically handicapped and for dental/dentist topics appear in the search results.  Ada the programming language is in a distant 3rd place.

To rectify this, we should assure that every single WWW page and job posting (and social-media posting) has Ada83, Ada1983, Ada87, Ada1987, Ada9X, Ada95, Ada1995, Ada2005, Ada2007, Ada2012, Ada2020, or Ada202X in it somewhere, so that people can find it without needing to search for only Ada.

Indeed, because each era of Ada is so different philosophically,  we should •rarely• speak of Ada per se, because we rarely are speaking of all eras of the language at once.  We should default to saying “Ada95 & greater” instead of merely “Ada”, or “Ada83 & greater” instead of merely “Ada”, or “Ada2005 & greater” instead of merely “Ada”.  This rule of thumb will immediately drastically increase the ability to search for Ada-the-language on the WWW and in job postings without all the ADA pollution.

The Go community combats this problem via referring to their language as Golang.  Dart community likewise frequently refers to Dartlang.  Instead of contriving Adalang, we can can all resolve today to switch to utilizing non-colliding names for Ada that are already in daily usage in the Ada community ••at least once•• per WWW page, job posting, or social media posting instead of merely “Ada” nearly all the time.