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Subject: Ada in polluted WWW searches
From: "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>
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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 Disabiliti=
es Act and the American Dental Association.  When searching for Ada, a vast=
 treasure trove of topics for the physically handicapped and for dental/den=
tist 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 postin=
g (and social-media posting) has Ada83, Ada1983, Ada87, Ada1987, Ada9X, Ada=
95, 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=
 =E2=80=A2rarely=E2=80=A2 speak of Ada per se, because we rarely are speaki=
ng of all eras of the language at once.  We should default to saying =E2=80=
=9CAda95 & greater=E2=80=9D instead of merely =E2=80=9CAda=E2=80=9D, or =E2=
=80=9CAda83 & greater=E2=80=9D instead of merely =E2=80=9CAda=E2=80=9D, or =
=E2=80=9CAda2005 & greater=E2=80=9D instead of merely =E2=80=9CAda=E2=80=9D=
.  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 Go=
lang.  Dart community likewise frequently refers to Dartlang.  Instead of c=
ontriving 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 communit=
y =E2=80=A2=E2=80=A2at least once=E2=80=A2=E2=80=A2 per WWW page, job posti=
ng, or social media posting instead of merely =E2=80=9CAda=E2=80=9D nearly =
all the time.