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Are you saying that you develop on Windows and did not take the Linux quiz because getting a low score implies you are not a "significant" software developer?

Are you saying that you develop on Windows and did not take the Linux quiz because getting a low score implies you are not a "significant" software developer? This does not seem to be a tool to merely judge you as a developer. Rather, it acts as a tool to determine syntax understanding, and to possibly point out new things one may not be aware of. Much more important than assigning a number to a skill.

graycat 11y ago
> determine syntax understanding I didn't start in programming with Windows and Visual Basic .NET. Not nearly. Instead, I've programmed far too many things that with bits and used a wide variety of examples of syntax, BNF, lexical scan, parsing, etc. Lots of it. E.g., I got quite good with PL/I and made contributions to its AI extension KnowledgeTool, and some of the syntax there is advanced stuff. E.g., just the scope of names rules and the difference between dynamic and static descendancy are nice, useful, and a bit intricate. I've invented and implemented new syntax. To me the quiz looked like just a test of skills with nothing more of significance to be learned.