Bonkers

[Ian Docherty]

Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
> I remember thinking I'd stumbled into the magic kingdom when I learnt 
> that I could copy a string like this:
>
>   while (*d++ = *s++) ;
>
> Xenix, 1984, a basement office in Billingham. Bizarrely I'd be 
> contracted for a single day to devise cunning tests to be used on 
> applicants for C job.
>
> I neglected to tell them that I spent the first half of the day 
> teaching myself C. Cue lots of protracted crapper visits with a copy 
> of K&R :)
>
> --Andy Armstrong, hexten.net 
A perfect example of the blind leading the blind!

And that explains why some of these interview questions are so dumb!

Ian.