He's talking about programming language library fluency instead of literate programming [1]. By the end he's talking about wanting his interviewees to code in t

He's talking about programming language library fluency instead of literate programming [1]. By the end he's talking about wanting his interviewees to code in the programming language they are most familiar with in order that he can be 'blown away'. And I agree with that to an extent. But if you honestly use C for everything then ...you probably want somebody 'literate' in that language. Hire based on their general supposed intelligence and based on their fluency with the languages they will be using. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming