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Re: Language puzzle

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From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 05:59
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On 2 May 2001 22:53:33 -0700, Torsten Welches wrote:

> You would be surprised how tricky a few of the exam questions 
> really are - that's intentional, to keep guys like yourself
> from getting a 100% score all too easy. <g>

LOL.  I ran into one of those on the Sun "Quizzes" web site a while 
back.  The question asked what a bit of code would print out.  One of 
the choices was what you might expect, and another was "none of the 
above".  But the snippet had a method named "do", so the the code would 
not compile and the correct answer was "none of the above".

I found the question rather amusing, like the puzzle I posted here, but 
I don't think that sort of think has any place on a certification exam.  
I think I would probably hire the guy who got that wrong over one who 
got it right.  That is unless I was looking to hire a compiler rather 
than a software developer.  :o)

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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