I want to respond to my own comment. After reading all of the responses I have to change my mind and agree with the precept of what the writer is saying. Hearin

I want to respond to my own comment. After reading all of the responses I have to change my mind and agree with the precept of what the writer is saying. Hearing from the perspective of people who do interviews and hiring, they are right. It is a good filter of who is and is not an actual programmer. It makes me also ask the question, are people who use interpreted languages really programmers? The code I write is conceptually programming, but I don't think in terms of how its compiled, but rather how efficiently its interpreted and ran by the web server.