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Maybe off topic, but isn't the language in the abstract a bit aggressive? I mean, this type of study is somewhat open to interpretation. It's not like everyone

• omginternets 7y ago
  Which part? This kind of direct language is both standard and encouraged in academia. The idea is to take a clear position, which can be attacked if wrong.
• idoubtit 7y ago
  The conclusion makes it clear that this work has no aggressive intent: Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidated its key result. Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of programming languages based on large-scale code repositories is hard. [...] Acknowledgments. We thank Baishakhi Ray and Vladimir Filkov for sharing the data and code of their FSE paper. Had they not preserved the original files and part of their code, reproduction would have been more challenging