Re: Exercism.io needs Ada

[Andreas ZEURCHER <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>]

On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 8:06:58 AM UTC-5, amado...@gmail.com wrote:
> Should not the first step be an evaluation of this site by an programming master? 
> Maybe this has been done; if so, please inform.

Define programming master in a nonAda language (and then state why a programming master in a nonAda language has any jurisdiction in Ada or in Ada's community).  Or did you mean that an Ada programming master would evaluate whether a nonAda language's presence on exercism.io?  (I'm not sure that an Ada programming master would be qualified to evaluate much depth in a nonAda language's presence on exercism.io:  what might be a pox-on-all-all-their-houses condemnation for another language by the high standards of an Ada-centric viewpoint might actually be stratospheric-achievement very very very best practices by that other nonAda language's experts, simply by the inferiority of the expressivity of that other nonAda language.)  Would exercism.io's exemplary (or defective) precedent in another language indicate that the same outcome would occur with Ada or that such similarity of outcome would even be likely, as opposed to just luck of the draw of the cards off of the stack in life's casino?  To me, it seems that any Ada presence in any programming forum/medium is highly dependent on the activism of the Ada participants, not the activism of participants in nonAda languages.  For example, exercises in other languages might not be able to be meaningfully borrowed verbatim-in-translation due to perhaps not highlighting good thoughts in Ada to show off Ada's special sauce (e.g., narrowly-declared strong subtyping; build-time swapping in different child packages for same-named identifiers to port to different-OS or different-hardware platforms).

I am fairly certain that in exercism.io's worldview, each maintainer and/or each mentor is by definition a programming master for that language, or is expected to mature quickly into one via the daily grind of the doing.  Perhaps our ambassador, Bruce Axtens, can illuminate that.  For example, is Bruce Axtens a programming master of Visual Basic .NET?  And does Bruce Axtens' invitation imply that the evaluation is already implicitly accomplished?