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,cba8f3b7d762cbd4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: help with survey Date: 1997/07/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 254052033 References: <5otr28$fif$1@orion-fddi.rz.uni-ulm.de> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Joerg says <<> 5. Your chosen language is practical (everyone uses it). ^^^^^^^^^ At least you tell us what you mean by practical. From a logical standpoint I might say: NO --- whatever language you choose since for sure there are some people who do not use the chosen language. ;-> I guess your assumed answer is 'NO' for all other languages besides C/C++...although there certainly are a lot of people with a different opinion. >> Of course it is not a bit true that "everyone" uses C/C++. The only language that might vaguely legitimately rate a yes is visual basic. The trouble with a question like this is that it invites people to answer from their predjudices rather than from knowledge. FOr example, in our department, all the faculty "know" that "everyone" uses C++ (but soon "everyone" will use Java), and "no one" uses Pascal. The facts: for PC development, 60% is done in Visual Basic, 13% in C/C++ and 5% in Pascal (= at this stage Delphi). These figures come from a supposedly independent survey that Bill Gates recently quoted. Of course any such survey is always a bit suspect, but let's just say that it was not a survey done by random questions to newsgroups on the net (it really is appalling to see these surveys being done in such an obviously invalid manner by students all over the place -- you can bet that the results of these bogus surveys will soon enough become received fact). Bill Gates was a little surprised at the 5% figure for Delphi (thought it was a bit high), but the ratio of VB to C++ sounds reasonable (VB is a much preferable tool for many purposes, and is in some respects a superior language to C++).