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Subject: Exercism and xHarbour
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by: axtens - Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:09 UTC

https://exercism.org is a place where programmers can go to get better. The blurb on the front page includes "Solve coding exercises and get mentored to develop fluency in your chosen programming languages. Exercism is open-source and not-for-profit."

I've recently launched a learning track for the 8th programming language (https://8th-dev.com), a FORTH dialect. It took me a while but I was working mostly alone. You can see the result at https://exercism.org/tracks/8th . I had a considerably larger team around me for the COBOL track (see https://exercism.org/tracks/cobol).

There could be an xHarbour or xBase track. It's not hard, the community is helpful and the admin support is outstanding. The requirements are well described (see https://exercism.org/docs/building/tracks/new).

I am NOT volunteering to lead. I'm still working on a Euphoria track, and if that doesn't kill me, I'll follow with SNOBOL4. And I've got folk wanting help with tracks for REXX, PowerShell and ... umm ... Windows CMD.

This is only a suggestion. Maybe you don't want xBase's and xHarbour's heads to appear above the parapets and prefer their slow decline into obscurity, senescence and death.

Kind regards,
Bruce

P.S. I posted this originally on xHarbour-Builder group. Claudio Voskian suggested I post it here also.