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Article #7969Re: Language puzzle
From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 05:59
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)
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Regards,
John McGrath [TeamB]
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