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Date: 15 Jan 93 20:03:26 GMT
From: visicom!rlk@nosc.mil  (Bob Kitzberger)
Subject: Re: Ada fairs poorly in CASE market survey
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srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:


>    The January 1993 issue of Software Magazine has a lengthy article on
>software reusability (pages 86-92).  On page 88 there is a table of the
>results of a survey by Sentry Market Research titled:
>
>	"Development Language Preferences among CASE buyers"
>with the following results:
>			1991		1992
>	Cobol		41%		38%
>	C		18%		16%
...
>	C++		4%		4%
>	Ada		2%		4%


Greg, in order to put much stock in this survey's results, we'd need to
know how many people participated, and from whence they came.  I would
expect different results for surveys of Datamation subscribers than I
would for Embedded Systems Programming magazine subscribers...

Also, in this part of the country, the results above hardly reflect the
want ads.  C, C++, and Ada beat out COBOL in these parts, if you track
the want ads.  (By the way, a disturbing trend is that you can now see
want ads that state "no applicants from the defense industry, please."
There's more to the commercial/defense split than language choice.)

	.Bob.
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