FSE/CACM Rebuttal$^2$: Correcting A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub
arXiv:1911.11894v1
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This is an incremental contribution aimed at clarifying methodological disputes in software engineering research.
The authors address a rebuttal to their reproduction study on programming languages and code quality, focusing on correcting claims from a prior large-scale study.
Ray, Devanbu and Filkov issued a rebuttal of our TOPLAS paper "On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality: A Reproduction Study". Our paper reproduced "A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub", which appeared at FSE 2014 and was subsequently republished as a CACM research highlight in 2017. This article is a rebuttal to that rebuttal.