On 02/12/2012 04:11 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> 1) You can figure out how to split a string and parse it into integers.
>
> In this particular case I wouldn't split it at all, but parse the ints
> directly from the string (which is quite easy to do since they are
> whitespace-separated.)

Two months of Bash scripting. That means we do this kind of thing all 
the time. It makes me twitch slightly when I think about it too much.

>> 2) You can sort the result.
>
> I can't imagine a programming language that doesn't offer sorting directly.
> Even standard C offers such a function, and that's saying quite a lot.

Like I say, one guy did start trying to write a bubble-sort by hand. (Of 
course, nobody else I work with sees anything wrong with that.) It does 
amuse me that somebody could know what a bubble-sort is, but /not/ know 
how to split a string, parse some integers and sort the result...

Of course, any sane person would use the built-in sorting facilities. 
Off the top of my head, the only languages I can think of that lack such 
a thing are PostScript, Tcl and BASIC. And who the hell would be using 
any of those? (OK, PostScript is used quite a lot - but *not* as a 
general-purpose programming language!)

>> At this point, we're not even asking for correct class or method names.
>> Just something that looks like vaguely valid C# syntax and has logic
>> which isn't obviously gibberish.
>
> I don't know enough C# to make it even look like it were. Unless C#
> resembles a lot C++ (which it probably does.) :)

Well, yeah, like Java it bears a strong superficial resemblance.



It's weird... I'm in a room full of programmers, and I seem to be the 
only person who knows anything at all about computer science. One day my 
boss says to me "I can't believe you don't know who J-Lo is". I replied 
"I can't believe you don't know the difference between a binary search 
tree and a binary heap tree". Every single human in the room stopped 
what they were doing, turned around and stared at me as if I'd just gone 
stark, raving mad. "What the *hell* are you talking about?" was my boss' 
reply.

Sometimes I weep.

Then again, in all honesty, how often do you need to implement a BST by 
yourself? Not very often...

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