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From: cole@farmhand.rtp.dg.com (Bill Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object oriented software engineers
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.185810.20991@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:58:10 GMT
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|> Bill Cole writes:
|> 
|> >How about this alternative (since not all candidates will be using the
|> >language I may choose): Given a problem, let the candidate work out the
|> >solution method on the wall with you.  One, it gives you a clue to how
|> >the individual attacks problems and, two, how they work in a small group.
|> 

John Lacey replies:
|> I like that idea, too.  You reason for it is terrible though.  If I
|> can't read Pascal, C, C++, Ada, BASIC, Fortran, etc., what am I doing
|> thinking I have the expertise to hire a programmer? Talk about
|> throwing darts blind-folded! 1/2 :-)
|> 

Yeah, I know.  Personally, I'd look for IBM 1620 machine language which
is intuitively obvious to anyone who looks at it, but......

/Bill