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Why isn't it?
by Kaizyn 19y ago
Why isn't it?
- amichail 19y agoWhat's important is whether this person has any important skills that you care about. Also, it's quite possible to get by under Windows without knowing anything about tar files.
- axod 19y ago"Getting by under windows" doesn't really scream 'great coder' to me.
- amichail 19y agoWindows has excellent development tools.
- pohart 19y agoI think It's clear that what is important is the skill that this person has. However, this is likely a good indicator that the student has not put a lot of energy into the field beyond what was required for class.
- SwellJoe 19y agoThe question is how can he have studied a wide enough variety of source code in a wide enough variety of languages to be competent without having seen tarballs? The best source code on the planet is generally available in tarball form (and occasionally also a zip as an afterthought). Not having seen a tarball means, "I have no interest in seeing other peoples code", which means they will never write good code. It takes years of reading and learning from other peoples good code to write good code of your own.
- jdavid 19y agothis is important, because anyone with any degree of genuine curiosity will have at least seen a tar file in the context of compression. if you use winrar, tar files are included in the open file list. with any sense of curiosity and intuition one would guess a tar file has to do with compression. i may not expect someone to know how to use a tar, but i would expect them to know what one is.
- BrandonM 19y ago...except that a tar file really has nothing to do with compression at all. It's just a way of serializing a hierarchy of files into a single file, without any compression. The compression comes when you run gzip or bzip2 (typically using the -z or -j option to tar) on the tar file.