From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,76f19a5f656fa576
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey
Date: 2000/04/27
Message-ID: <3908549C.9324E282@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 616371939
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <390746A1.740C9D08@averstar.com>
 <3907DD01.4D0B9987@quadruscorp.com>
X-Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: LMTAS
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 2000-04-27T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>



"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
> --