Already the order of choices can mess up a result, notwithstanding the absence.

There is this famous example of the US Census question for ancestry, where the numbers jump considerably depending on order.

I remember reading (hopefully correctly) that the number of "Croatian Americans" once doubled when it was the first choice.

Now guess the number of emacs users if it wasn't just a text to fill in for other choices.

> Still, nicely presented results and always good to do publicity oriented / conversation starter stuff for Perl.

Consequently the monastery should start serious polls in the voting booth with nice pie charts? :)

Related answer order story. I wrote a CGI quiz maker for non-techies/trainers at Amazon that took a simply formatted plaintext file and turned it into a webform. I randomized answer order. But I actually did it out of concern for cheating, not fair presentation of options.

Still, nicely presented results and always good to do publicity oriented / conversation starter stuff for Perl.

You made my day. This is the reason why "Power Point" is called "Power Point". Hadn't got that bit before this.

Emacs is the Perl of the editor world.

Badmouthing and/or ignoring is considered acceptable among many.

Emacs is the Perl of the editor world.

TIMTOWTDI - there is more than one world to die in

*scnr*

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

"Emacs is the Perl of the editor world."

Wrong. Half of that belongs to Emacs and the other half to Vim.