About a week ago I put up a poll asked questions about what people in the Clojure community valued. In particular, this was a series of questions that said, “We value X over Y”. I was trying to capture the same notion from the agile manifesto where they say that while there is value in the thing on the right, we value the thing on the left more.

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Here’s the raw data:

Value Emphatic yes Yes No Just the opposite Votes Score Scaled score Simple over easy 46 30 3 79 119 1.51 Values over variables 47 27 5 79 116 1.47 Clarity over terseness 24 32 6 62 74 1.19 Practical over promising 15 41 6 62 65 1.05 Thinking over tests 22 44 11 2 79 73 0.92 Public over private 17 49 13 79 70 0.89 Explicit over implicit 14 36 12 62 52 0.84 Data over interfaces 20 43 14 2 79 65 0.82 Accessibility over encapsulation 23 38 17 1 79 65 0.82 Eggs over easy 21 14 24 20 79 -8 -0.10 Code over ideas 5 29 24 21 79 -27 -0.34

The first 4 columns above are the actual votes. Votes was the number of votes cast (I added a couple after the start). Score is my own concoction: +2 points for emphatic yes, +1 point yes, -1 point for no, and -2 points for opposite. That yields a score, which I scaled by the number of votes in the last column. I then sorted by the last column. All data here.

So, glean from this what you will. Some other suggestions that did not make it into the poll: