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Re: How do you perceive programming? how do you look at the quality of software? Help needed with a quick survey!!!1

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On 07/03/2013 7:08 AM, komal singh wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:38:44 PM UTC, komal singh wrote:
>> Can you please help with a quick short survey which looks at the perceptions of
 >> programmers and also how they look at the quality of software???
>
> you clearly have no idea of what my disso is about and what i need doing.s o
 > if you sad people can help then feel free otherwise stop wasting my 
time. you
 > clearly have nothing else to do. if your so clever and smart why not 
take up
 > the challenge and lets see if you can answer my questions.

I think you may not be familiar with the culture you've dived into with 
your multiple separate posts on the same subject. It's a practice that's 
been frowned upon in Usenet since its beginnings 30+ years ago. It may 
look like an overreaction to you, but that's because you didn't realize 
that, in this environment, multiposting is considered rude. Lots of 
people respond to rudeness with rudeness.

As to the questionnaire itself, in one of the separate places you posted 
this request I (politely, I think) asked if you were aware an internet 
survey like the one you proposed to email wouldn't give you any 
statistically valid information. If you just wanted a quick response to 
guide future work that would be one thing -- last fall I asked a brief 
question about how use cases were written in industry, for example, but 
that was never meant to be presented as legitimate research. There are 
plenty of professional programmers on this list who would consider it 
irresponsible to participate in an informal survey that was going to be 
portrayed as a research result. It is a *lot* of work to survey 
industrial practices properly; I have a colleague who has built a career 
on it.

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