Re: Embedded Systems Survey

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> writes:

> While I did vote early and often, :-) the results of these sort of
> Internet polls are basically meaningless. They are a self-selected
> sample. Its like a radio talk show call-in poll. The callers are
> generally the die-hard audience and their opinions reflect the views of
> the show.
> 
> You think there may be some way of getting an honest answer to the
> question of how many developers prefer Ada for a given problem domain?

I don't know, but it seems to me more important to ask whether the
resulting software is cheaper, safer, or better in some other way,
rather than whether the developers prefer it.  ;-)

- Bob