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> It's not trivia, it's trivial. That is a great quote; I hope you don't mind if I borrow it from time to time. The comments that this is "nuanced" or a "sill

> It's not trivia, it's trivial. That is a great quote; I hope you don't mind if I borrow it from time to time. The comments that this is "nuanced" or a "silly gotcha" are interesting. I wonder if these commenters have ever programmed in Delphi or Pascal? (No offense intended to those commenters if you have.) I've never used Delphi itself (although a program I wrote was bundled with it for a while, if you remember WinSight). I did write some Pascal code 35 years ago for DOS and the original Mac OS, but haven't touched the language or looked at it since then. But even I knew the answer to this right off the top of my head. It's so fundamental that if you don't know it, you don't know the language at all.

Clubber 9y ago
>I hope you don't mind if I borrow it from time to time. Sure. >It's so fundamental that if you don't know it, you don't know the language at all. That's what we were shooting for. We knew there was no way we would know a rock star without working with them, and we were more than willing to accept good people who had room to improve. We couldn't accept someone who didn't know the language. It worked out really well for us. Because the interviews were short, we could fit a lot more in during a workday and get the process over quickly.