it's neither c++ nor is it pseudo code. but this language has been designed to closely follow C syntax, so the confusion is not surprising. in fact originally t

it's neither c++ nor is it pseudo code. but this language has been designed to closely follow C syntax, so the confusion is not surprising. in fact originally the language did have C in its name. i am going to leave the actual answer at what language this is open to allow more people to keep guessing ;-) you are right about x and y. i was really tired :o but it runs (at least as long as there is no overflow). here is a sample output: > findgrid(data, y, x, seek); // there, fixed the x/y problem ;-) 160:0 165:0 65:0 174:0 23:0 253:0 229:0 130:1 (1) Result: 1 oh, and since we are talking about interview experiences. at one job during the interview i was allowed to provide coding solutions in this language, even though the job was about python.