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> Unless "we" are C++ programmers, in which case "we" like to write 2500-line clones of the Unix 'grep' utility whenever "we" need to do a text search — or so i
by _pmf_ 13y ago
> Unless "we" are C++ programmers, in which case "we" like to write 2500-line clones of the Unix 'grep' utility whenever "we" need to do a text search — or so it would seem, from the candidates I've interviewed in the past few months.
Maybe you made the impression of a smart ass interviewer who likes to make up retarded interview exercises, and your interviewees played along. You might want to work on that.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoThat's probably a pretty shitty interview question, but can it with the "retarded" stuff ok.
- AnimalMuppet 13y agoYeah. The assumption of smug superiority on the part of the Lisp folks can be really annoying, but responding in this way just makes you also a jerk. Been there, done that. Just yesterday, in fact. After thinking about it, I decided that I didn't like the way I'd gone about it. It wasn't that the other person was being wonderful - he/she was being a pompous, self-important jerk. But I let that turn me into a jerk, and that's not progress...