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: 103376,9d3932ba981df019 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada usage up? Date: 2000/08/29 Message-ID: <3zd9u+q1isge@eisner.decus.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 664056026 References: <39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 967583183 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:06:23 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:06:23 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu>, "Bobby D. Bryant" 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.