14/15. I guessed wrong between Piet and GLSL which I never heard about. How many possible questions are there?
Yeah, Piet's a curveball! It's a pretty cool (esoteric, totally useless) language however.
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#12So the scheme is I answer questions in order to get my ego higher, you bribe me with "you are top n", I leave my CV?
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#13Got 14/15 but I have a feeling it was only because I made the assumption I would not see the same language twice. Without that assumption a few were toss ups for me. Of all the languages on there the only one in that set I had never used / seen at all is Kotin and that's the one I got wrong. Several of them were mandatory for me to learn in college but I haven't seen since. (looking at you, Prolog and Verilog... Veri…
I also missed Kotlin.
A lot of them could be inferred from what the code is doing. For example, PHP and Perl are sometimes really hard to distinguish, but I was able to get PHP right by deciding that "this ain't what a Perl hacker would write". Same with Ada v. VHDL.
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#14So the scheme is I answer questions in order to get my ego higher, you bribe me with "you are top n", I leave my CV?
(Note: I work at Triplebyte.) No CVs -- we skip resumes and cover letters, and match engineers to companies (bypassing recruiter and resume screens) based on demonstrated skills.
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#15Damn, I miss APL.
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#17Stupidly, I missed Ruby/Python from going too quickly right at the beginning. Then missed Ada/VHDL from never having heard of VHDL, and I thought "oh, looks like Ada."
Anyway, fun stuff. I laughed when Piet came up.
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#18I am not a programmer other than one visual basic course I took in college.
My score: "You got 8 out of 15 right You're in the top 50% of engineers. Can your friends beat you? Share your score and challenge them to do better!"
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#1913/15
One was because I got two LISPs mixed up with each other, the other because it was in a language I didn't recognize (Piet) and there were two languages I didn't know anything about as options (GLSL was the other).
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#20Interestingly enough, question 5 is actually syntactically correct Perl, but not PHP.