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- From: jar@solva.ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland)
- Subject: Re: Question to test general C knowledge
- In-Reply-To: ark@alice.att.com's message of 13 Dec 92 17:52:26 GMT
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- Sender: jar@ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- <24406@alice.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:09:06 GMT
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- Originator: jar@solva.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <24406@alice.att.com> ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
- Part 1: Write a program to do a binary search.
- [...stuff deleted...]
-
- Part 2: Does your program work? How do you know?
- That is: either prove it works or write a second
- program to test it.
- [...rest deleted...]
-
- Do I get to bring my copy of "Programming Pearls" (or was that one in
- "More Programming Pearls")? :-)
-
- I totally agree with Mr. Koenig. When hiring programmers there are a
- lot of things that should matter more than fluency in some particular
- language. Experience and competence--both within the problem domain
- and in general programming issues--are probably more important.
- Becoming a master C programmer from scratch probably takes years, but
- is that really what's needed? Becoming a _useful_ C programmer takes
- a lot shorter, at least if you have those other qualifications in
- place.
-
- Btw, Jon Bentley's books mentioned above should be standard reading
- for all (C) programmers, and they don't even mention C with a word.
- Eg. the part about "informal" program verification is pure gold.
-
- --
- Jo Are Rosland
- jar@ifi.uio.no
-