Brainbench perl test?

[Mr I]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Roger Burton West <roger at firedrake.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:03:22PM +0100, Mr I wrote:
> >You're not testing the candidates knowledge of maths you're testing their
> >knowledge of programming.
>
> If the candidate doesn't ask "what happens when n is less than 2", he
> may be a passable maintenance programmer but he's not someone I'd hire
> to have any sort of responsibility.
>

Again your assumptions are on knowing about the fibonacci sequence. So a
candidate that does not know the fibonacci sequence but identifies a
possible flaw in the question can only be a maintenance programmer?



>
> >It's equivalent to asking you to write a function ved(n, m) that
> implements
> >the 16 sutras* and uses them to return the result. A task that maybe
> easily
> >done by many an Indian programmer yet many in this group would struggle
> >with.
>
> Similarly, I'd expect the candidate to ask for more information.
>

However under your above reasoning such questions may result in the
candidate only being considered for 'maintenance programming' simply
because the candidate does not know vedic mathematics.

That's foolishness.


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