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I know C but none of those categories apply to me. Poll design is useful skill to learn! I am not a pollster but by combining different facts into single optio
by timclark 16y ago
I know C but none of those categories apply to me. Poll design is useful skill to learn!
I am not a pollster but by combining different facts into single options you are restricting the information you can gain from your poll or polls.
I taught C to engineering students at a university, I know it thoroughly, I haven't written a line of it in 12 years - the only option I can logically choose is the final option.
- DanielStraight 16y agoAs per other comment thread, my intention wasn't to combine facts, more so to provide guidelines. If one of the statements doesn't apply but the overall "feel" of the option is right, I think you can go with that, since after all, the stated purpose of the poll is to see how well HN users know C. For your purposes, I might pick the first option, as it says C is either your main or best-known language. Best-known could be a reasonable statement in your case.
- kylemaxwell 16y agoBasically the same here. I used to live and breathe C... now I don't code nearly as much (and when I do, it's generally shell or Perl scripts).
- maw 16y agoAgreed. Polls like this one don't work well for orthogonal ranges, and here there are at least two: how well you know C (from knowing nothing to being a master) and how often you use it (never [anymore, if you happen to know it well] to it being your primary language. A third range might be how much you like C, regardless of how good you are at it or how often you use it.