Re: Embedded Systems Survey

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> 
> Tucker Taft wrote:
> >
> > If you use Ada for embedded system development, you might
> > want to visit:
> >
> >     http://www.embedded.com
> >
> > to vote accordingly in their on-line survey of language use.
> >
> While I did vote early and often, :-) the results of these sort of
> Internet polls are basically meaningless. They are a self-selected
> sample. Its like a radio talk show call-in poll. The callers are
> generally the die-hard audience and their opinions reflect the views of
> the show.
> 
> 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?

One of my main irritants in these surveys is the definition of
"developer".  They usually completely omit programmers that are "non-cs
scientists and engineers" (a sizable segment).

> 
> MDC
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