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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: New Employee Test
- Message-ID: <640@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:55:39 GMT
- References: <assist.721943530@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1992Nov19.002724.13837@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov19.010534.19506@cs.yale.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.010534.19506@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
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- >Also, I'd note that you specified that the guy should create a bubble
- >sort. One might believe that you had a specific reason why you wanted
- >that. I certainly wouldn't tell someone who was writing code for me
- >that I wanted a bubble sort unless that's what I actually wanted.
- >
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- Yes, but how to you *know* that that is what you want?
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- How do I (the systems analyst) know that you are qualified
- to make the judgement about which type of sort is appropriate?
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- Do you know about all of the options available (have you heard
- of a combsort)?
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- The engineer that doesn't question the questionable parts
- of a spec can run into trouble, especially when the customer
- thinks he knows more about my job than I do. (It's called
- overspecification and can be a real pain in the A**!)
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