From: Uri Raz <uraz@iil.intel.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/10/01
Date: 1996-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52qso0$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52eltk$jha@news.ccit.arizona.edu
frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) wrote:
>In article <529vd7$h9l@lex.zippo.com> nasser@apldbio.com writes:
>>In article <529n5f$k68@news.ccit.arizona.edu>, frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
>>says...
>>
>>> I question whether you can
>>> draw any valid conclusions on this subject by studying classified ads.
>>>
>>
>> Really? If you see 1000 ads asking for skill A, and 1 asking for skill B,
>> are you saying I can't draw any conclusion from this?
>
> You can draw the conclusion that 1000 ads are asking for skill A and
> one is asking for skill B. Beyond that, what?
>
> Does that tell me there are 1000 times as many workers using skill A
> compared to skill B? No. The ratio may be greater or less than 1000.
> Maybe by a large amount. Who knows?
>
You can conclude as following :
1. The demand for skill A within companies is greater then offered by
people within those companies.
2. The demand for skill B within companies is satisfied by people
within those companies.
3. The chances of one to find a job are greatly enhanced if he acquires
skill A, but are not if he acquires skill B.
This would not indicate anything about the usage of the skill, as the ads
only indicate the difference between how many people with the skill are
needed and how many people with the skill are already working.
e.g. there are many more lines of code written in f77 or cobol then there
are lines of code written in any of the new languages (JAVA, HTML), but
the demand for programmers in the old languages is low (the code is stable,
positions already filled in past years, etc), while the demand for
programmers in the new languages is high (as jobs are created, but not
many people can yet do them).
I dont think that anything but a large survey (in both area and time) could
say how many lines of code in various languages was/is/will be developed,
how many programmers were/are/will be needed to code in each language and
say how viable those languages are.
Uri Raz.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz [this message]
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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