From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a37:aa14:: with SMTP id t20mr38981644qke.104.1625109264001; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:14:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:3213:: with SMTP id y19mr34602420yby.92.1625109263847; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:14:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8d462925-2d5e-40eb-aeb9-c872f4d3b781n@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.200.73; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.200.73 References: <32bca509-dba2-42ee-88bf-1eceb488a883n@googlegroups.com> <12aaec74-c32e-4ac3-b5a6-d8d9bdaad435n@googlegroups.com> <46d6677c-dcd9-4440-9a7b-ccdce06b6666n@googlegroups.com> <8d462925-2d5e-40eb-aeb9-c872f4d3b781n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Exercism.io needs Ada From: Andreas ZEURCHER Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:14:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62312 List-Id: On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 12:11:51 PM UTC-5, amado...@gmail.com wrote: > No "certification agency". An authority, someone that the community trust= s. Not necessarily an Adaist. From the top of my head, Kasakov, Rosen, Bott= on, Wheeler, Knuth, Wirth, even Kernighan, Ritchie, Linus I guess (examples= of master level, not of availability unfortunately). If I were compiling such a list, I think I would put Randy Brukhardt on the= list too. Conversely, I am more of the opinion that any student of a topi= c knows when the pedagogy of that topic is exemplary versus defective, as t= he proof of the pudding is in the tasting with one's own tongue.