On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:57:24PM +0200, Newton, Philip said:
> For example, yes, formats are part of Perl, but most people don't use them a
> whole lot so they'd have to look at perldoc perlform to see the difference
> between @<<< and ^<<< or between ~ and ~~. Does the fact that they don't
> know the difference make them a bad programmer? Some tests seem to think so.
> Perhaps some interviewers think so, too. But it ain't so.
I have a C, Java and Assembler programming test on Monday with these people
http://www.artworks.co.uk/company.htm
They did scary thing with DirectX and they debugged the original Playstation
APIs.
I'm bricking myself.
On a similar note this is a post to $other_list that I did after an
interview and programming test with another games company.
To me it seemed really pointless - they didn't seem to be satisfied with the
fact that I recognised that there might be a problem and that it would
probably be compiler dependant.
Nor that anybody using this in code ought to be shot.
----- Forwarded message from Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:07:14 -0500
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interview Question
Got asked this last week ...
a=1;
a=a++;
what is the value of a?
----------------------------------------------------------
% gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specsgcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
% cat < try.c
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (void)
{
int a=2;
a=a++;
printf("%d\n",a);
return 0;
}
% gcc -o try try.c ; ./try
3
%
----------------------------------------------------------
% perl -v
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
% cat < try.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $a=2;
$a=$a++;
print "$a\n";
exit 0;
% perl try.pl
2
%
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