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Article #2023Re: Good C Interview questions?
From: Tim Hollebeek
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:23
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:23
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Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com) wrote: : kenslowe@internet.OIT.OSSHE.EDU (Eric Kenslow) wrote: : >tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young) wrote: : > : >[snip - interview in DDJ with Michael Cowlishaw] : >>Anyway, a relevant quote from the article: "One question I often ask a : >>programmer is, 'How good are you at using the debugger?' If they're : > : > 'The best way to write but-free code is to actively step through all : >new or modified code to watch it execute, and to verify that every : >instruction does exactly what you intended it to do.' Isn't that what assertions are for? I'd hate to have to step through code and watch things the computer can watch for me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Hollebeek | Disclaimer :=> Everything above is a true statement, <space for rent> | for sufficiently false values of true. Princeton Univ. | email: tim@wfn-shop.princeton.edu -------------------| http://wfn-shop.princeton.edu/~tim (NEW! IMPROVED!)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail From: tim@franck.Princeton.EDU (Tim Hollebeek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated Subject: Re: Good C Interview questions? Date: 16 Feb 1996 09:23:53 -0600 Organization: Princeton University Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com Message-ID: <4g27i9$q70@solutions.solon.com> References: <4ec3vg$lst@solutions.solon.com> <4emaqj$3ng@solutions.solon.com> <4ep1s1$5se@solutions.solon.com> <4fjnch$oqq@solutions.solon.com> <4fp1i1$h2s@solutions.solon.com> <4fvkg3$et1@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]