From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey
Date: 2000/04/27
Date: 2000-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Apr27.075813.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3907DD01.4D0B9987@quadruscorp.com
In article <3907DD01.4D0B9987@quadruscorp.com>, "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> writes:
> You think there may be some way of getting an honest answer to the
> question of how many developers prefer Ada for a given problem domain?
First you have to enumerate "all developers" for that problem domain.
Then you decide on a sampling algorithm and ask away.
The "no response" and the "none-of-your-business" samples will
affect your "margin of error", as does the "always lie on surveys"
mentality.
If it were not language advocacy, but something else, like
preferred toothpaste, would _you_ answer ?
Giving people money for answering skews the results.
> You think there may be some way of getting an honest answer to the
> question of how many developers prefer Ada for a given problem domain?
No.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-26 0:00 Embedded Systems Survey Tucker Taft
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-08-04 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-07 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gautier
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