From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada usage up?
Date: 2000/08/29
Date: 2000-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3zd9u+q1isge@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu
In article <39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu>, "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> An article on The Register
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12879.html) discusses an IT
> skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
> Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey. (It
> does not give enough information to judge whether this might be a
> statistical fluke.)
I infer from the page that their methodology is "mentions in ads".
There is not enough space in comp.lang.ada :-) to discuss fully
all the ways that can be non-representative.
Demand for Ada may very well be up, but I would not look to The Register
for proof. I would trust them to have gotten the ad count correct, and
to some extent ad count is important in and of itself.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-29 0:00 Ada usage up? Bobby D. Bryant
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-08-29 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-08-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-08-31 22:57 ` John McCabe
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