Re: Database Job Survey

john <john_at_spam.com> wrote:

: John Jensen wrote:

: > http://www.robojob.com/data.html

: under the operating systems tab, you list windows, windows95, windows NT
: etc. Does the first category, "windows" include all the others? if so,
: the numbers don't add up.

Each of the names, windows, windows95, windows NT, and so on, is backed by a set of regular expressions. Whenever a paragraph contains one of the expressions, it counts as a hit (but never more than one). The idea is that this is really a "level of interest" thing. Consider the short paragraph below:

  "We are looking for a Windows programmer. Your task will be to develop   Visual Basic applications for Windows 95/NT. Knowledge of UNIX a plus."

This yields 1 hit for Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, VM, and UNIX. Obviously, this is more a measure of what employers (or search firms) are interested in, than a strict measure of open requisitions.

: also, your definitions; "Visual Basic is Microsoft's application scripting
: language. ".

: Visual Basic is not a scripting language, you may want to re-write some of
: your definitions.

I'm open to suggestions. In the case of VB, I was trying to get across the idea that it was used for application level programming, but isn't quite as down and dirty as something like C.

John Received on Tue Jul 20 1999 - 09:13:58 CDT