The recent try proposal by Robert Griesemer sparked a lot of controversy. While the proposal is a subject to reasonable criticism, I didn’t feel like everyone was always on the same page.
This post isn’t pro-try or anti-try. It just shows how try could be used so that you can form a more informed opinion.
Suppose we are grad students of social sciences and need to come up with idea for a poll. Since we are programmers, too, we’ve come up with this poll: find correlations between person’s gender, favorite OS, and favorite programming language.