Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ ....

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:49:49 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> On 12-10-07 19:26 , Michael Erdmann wrote:
>> Why this post?
>> 
>> Yesterday while checking through comp.lang.ada i stumbled upon the
>> following statement from Patrick:
>> 
>> ... There are too many sites that make it seem like Ada is dead...
>> 
>> Frankly speaking i have to agree; the Ada community seems to be like an
>> endangered animal; successfully existing unseen in a niche.
> 
> One reason for that is that any "pushy" promotion of Ada tends to
> trigger an aggressive and negative response. Ada advocates must speak
> very softly, I've found.

I agree with this. However a simple informative post or article in 
another forum is probably acceptable. 

For example, the Raspberry Pi forum and/or MagPi magazine would be 
communities where Ada is probably unknown; where an alternative language 
would be well received, and where education is the main driver behind the 
project. Grab'em young!

I haven't done anything with my Pi yet, but some folks here have used Ada 
on it.

Perhaps an article about using the Pi to recreate one of the great 
British computers ... whose simulator just happens to use Ada... ;-)

> I think we need visibility among professional or advanced amateur
> programmers who already use several languages, and are therefore not in
> love with a single language and blind to its defects. I suspect many of
> them read IEEE Computer Society publications. An article on Ada 2012 in
> "Computer" could be useful.

Definitely also true.

- Brian