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Absolutely, the two prior responses indicate that, one going for "1" as most valuable, the other for "5", so I guess this survey has been a waste of time for all concerned.
Except of course the messages.
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So, idea for the next survey: in a survey, when asked to rate items as valuable, what score do you associate with "most valuable"?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5
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What about "Other". 42 would fit the bill nicely methinks. 
/ravi
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or, as my ex-wife used to say, "it's nice to want."
Marc
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How well CP users know it. 
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...that's a good one... 
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by it's documentation and it's support, both phone and online. This is not all that I look for but it is one of the first items on my checklist.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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No matter how well a third party tool is documented there will be a time when I get stuck. At that point it is more important than anything else that I can get support from the company that made the tool or any other website that knows what they're talking about. I (and any other user) also might need updates that fix bugs, but don't break public API's. Had that once and I needed to exclude a couple of files to make it work again. I had been working for days on those files...
As for the question, from top to bottom I rate their importancy 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Support is right up their with detailed documentation 
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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2nd and 3rd options are nice, but I won't bother with any library that doesn't have a detailed manual that cover all APIs in that library orand I don't have access to that library's source code.
[edit]as long as it has one of those two requirements, I'm fine with it. 
Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary
Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos.
It's because English is my primary language, not my first language.
My first languages are C# and Java.
VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language.
Indonesian came as my third language.
My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done!
modified 9-Jan-12 4:53am.
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You mean, you won't do .NET as all its source code isn't available?
'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Mistype, fixed.
Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary
Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos.
It's because English is my primary language, not my first language.
My first languages are C# and Java.
VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language.
Indonesian came as my third language.
My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done!
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That makes more sense then, I agree with that version
'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Dig into thousands of thousands lines of source code just because there is no proper documentation? Thank you very much. No docs is no API, for me -- unless the functionality is obvious but then I don't need a source code either.
Greetings - Jacek
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I used to think that source code was required too. Then I got what I wished for. The source code that was delivered didn't have any comments and was mildly obfuscated. So I'm not such a source code fan anymore.
Hogan
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