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HN comment orderWhile knowing the standards makes you a better programmer, it's still bad programming practice to write non-excplicit, cryptic code. I think the boy's initial "I would never write code like this" response is spot on. I also agree with the boy's implied annoyance and "who cares what this badly written program actually does" stance. These are fairly terrible interview questions. They test knowledge of standards and various obscure behaviour, but it's far more important what kind of code (readable, explicit…
I'm not so jaded as to think that deep language understanding isn't a useful or good thing, and I'd like to think I have some myself. However, deep language understanding is not what separates the great engineers from the good ones. In an interview, I would much rather hear a person say something about a statically declared variable with no initialization being poor code to leave behind for the next person than some arcana about the standard.
Previously on HN 2013, 237 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596855
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 670
- Total comments
- 379
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-10-10 | Deep CFirst breakout · Best thread | FrancescoRizzi | 375 | 141 |
| 2013-10-23 | Deep C and C++ (2011)Latest 20+ point return | kamaal | 278 | 237 |
| 2015-07-14 | Deep C (2011) | pliny | 7 | 1 |
| 2016-11-10 | Deep C | adamnemecek | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-04-19 | Deep C (2011)Hall induction | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-06-27 | Deep C (2011) | netule | 7 | 0 |