Re: meaningfully/compellingly “advertising” Ada on StackOverflow

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

On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 10:43:50 AM UTC-5, John Perry wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 9:27:12 AM UTC-5, 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.  ...
> 
> I hope you aren't too upset that I seem to have hijacked your thread! I do think this would be a
> worthwhile endeavor.

Oh, I am not upset at all.  All ways of incrementally helping Ada “cross the chasm” in getting the word out to increase mindshare are welcome!

Also, please realize that the feedback that you are getting here on c.l.a regarding safe versus unsafe Ada is intended to be constructive criticism, likely pursuant to adding another full-fledged safe (e.g., with ISO-standard containers) design-in-repository & row-in-table for Ada.  I think that everyone here applauds any & all efforts that you are doing, regardless of purity of safety.  (Perhaps let someone else be the standard-bearer of safety-purity in that repository.)

I try to devise topics here on c.l.a that invigorate Ada, or at least invigorate motivations & fervor regarding polishing off Ada's tarnish to make Ada shine brightly.  (I remember throughout the 1980s the awe in which we as college students were in regarding both dominant Ada and the catch-up mode that scrappy C++ was in to come from behind to ‘beat’ Ada; it was heady exciting times back then that I haven't really seen again until perhaps Rust lately.*)  I never know precisely where the conversation will go when I make a stimulating top-level posting here on c.l.a, but replies/outcomes just like yours are exactly what I envision occurring when I post a stimulating top-level posting on c.l.a.  (Sometimes I do it via a stimulating reply on someone else's top-level posting too.)

* Java's big flash in the pan during the mid-1990s was a huge snoozefesh eye-roll by comparison.  Yea rah  big breakthrough for humankind:  named-goto-labels on continue & break, plus •lack• of truly solving the null-pointer problem phthphthphthpth.  Swing was Java's only truly great achievement but Swing could have been done in any language (e.g., Qt or WxWidgets on C++ if either one of them had had Sun Microsystems' then-deep pockets to bankroll them; or likewise an analogue of Qt or WxWidgets for Ada95).  Sun's deep pockets made Swing a success, not Java-the-language.