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[Martin Hill]

My response to your questionaire:
>=================================================================
>Object-Oriented Software Development Survey
>
>This is a small preliminary survey to determine the proportion of 
>developers making use of certain object-oriented languages and 
>methodologies, as well as their use of software metrics. Your 
>participation in completing this form is very much appreciated.
>_________________________________________________________________
>Your address (If you would like a copy of the summarised results) 

mchill@dial.pipex.com

>_________________________________________________________________
>The country you are located in (for comparision purposes) 

About half/half, UK/Kenya (just to make things difficult!)

>_________________________________________________________________
>What platforms do you develop software for?
>(place a check mark 'x' next to those you use)
>
>[x] DOS 
>[x] Win3.1 
>[ ] Win95/NT 
>[ ] Macintosh 
>[x] OS/2 
>[ ] Unix 
>[ ] VMS 
>    Other (please name)
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>What types of development tools do you use?
>(place a check mark 'x' next to those you use)
>
>[x] Procedural languages 
>[x] Object-oriented languages 
>[ ] 4GLS 
>[ ] CASE tools 
>[ ] Small-systems tools (such as Access) 
>    Other (please name) 
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>What object-oriented langauges do you use?
>(place a check mark 'x' next to those you use)
>
>[ ] Ada 95
>[ ] C++ 
>[ ] Delphi 
>[ ] Eiffel 
>[ ] Java (applications) 
>[ ] Jave (applets) 
>[x] Object Pascal 
>[ ] Objective-C 
>[ ] Smalltalk 
>    Other (please name)
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>What object-oriented development methodologies do you use?
>(place a check mark 'x' next to those you use)
>
>[ ] Berard 
>[ ] Booch 
>[ ] Coad and Yourdon 
>[ ] Fusion 
>[ ] Jacobsen 
>[ ] Rumbaugh 
>[ ] Shlaer-Mellor 
>[ ] Unified 
>[ ] Wirfs-Brock 
>    Other (please name)

WOW!  Where can you find out about these?  I'm self-taught...
(I have a book by a Bertrand Meyer...?)

>_________________________________________________________________
>Do you use software metrics for object-oriented development?
>(place a check mark 'x' next to the correct answer)
>
>[ ] Yes
>[ ] No 

ummm... whats a software metric?

>_________________________________________________________________
>Could you please describe the object-oriented metrics you use 
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Any other comments about your use of object-oriented development? 
>

Small business office automation stuff mostly, linking in to other
apps.  Main library code approx 100,000 lines.

>_________________________________________________________________
>
>Thanks very much for your time.
>
>=================================================================

No problem.  Sorry I'm not so familiar with the jargon (what *is* a software 
metric?!), both me and my father are self-taught.  (I did astrofizzics
at university instead!)


Martin Hill
mchill@dial.pipex.com
Eh?  What?  Where's the tea?

Re: Your questionaire

[John M. Roche]

In article <51k9fs$esu@soap.news.pipex.net>, mchill@dial.pipex.com 
says...
>
>Sorry sorry sorry, I posted this instead of emailing it and my 
newsreader 

Perhaps collect a metric e.g how many times you reply
 incorrectly via newsgroup instead of email and vice versa could help 
improve your process :-)) 
Cheers
John Roche geologist, ceramicist come software process measurer.