Re: Ada research survey (NOT !)

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <35035799.0202080732.372376b3@posting.google.com>, clanfear@yahoo.com (cal) writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<6I0+NCnyxpwl@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
>> In article <35035799.0202070823.2556cf9d@posting.google.com>, clanfear@yahoo.com (cal) writes:
>> > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<vHsW7qanJj$0@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
>> >> In article <35035799.0202060951.43d785d9@posting.google.com>, clanfear@yahoo.com (cal) writes:
>> >> > VDC is conducting the first comprehensive market study of the Ada
>> >> > language.
>> >> 
>> >> Untrue.  The specified web page deals only with embedded use of Ada.
>> > 
>> > Show me a market study on the Ada Language...
>> 
>> You are the one in the survey business.  I have been using Ada for
>> 14 years, never embedded.
> 
> So you say that this is not the first study, but you can not tell me
> about another one.

Where did I say this is not the first survey (of some sort) ?

I said this was not a comprehensive market study of the Ada language.

Any survey that considers only embedded usage is not a comprehensive
market study of the Ada language.

>> > If you do not want to recieve the prizes put in a bogus email.   I do
>> > not care.  Last year we gave out 11 Palms VIIs, 15 DVDs and 15 gift
>> > certificates to developers and end users who filled out surveys.
>> 
>> No, I don't lie on surveys.
>> 
>> And those "prizes" are not of interest to me.
> 
> Don't fill it out then...

You do not allow me to fill it out, because the survey say if one does not
program in the embedded arena one should not fill it out.