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Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by khedoros1 »

arethuza wrote: post #28
throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

Got 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 scored 14/15 - got PHP wrong I thought it was Perl which is slightly embarrassing as I've never used PHP but I have used Perl.

I did that too, and in the same situation (although I got more wrong).

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by SilasX »

throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

Got 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…

Got 14/15 because I couldn't tell Emacs Lisp from Clojure. Argh ...

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by khedoros1 »

pmontra wrote: post #10

14/15. I guessed wrong between Piet and GLSL which I never heard about. How many possible questions are there?

Piet's an esoteric, and GLSL is OpenGL's Shader Language. GLSL looks kind of C-like, while Piet looks like Mondrian paintings (for many programs, anyhow).

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by dtft »

ammon wrote: post #2

We (Triplebyte) actually tested a while ago whether identifying languages was predictive as an interview question (we thought it might predict general experience / exposure to lots of code). It was not predictive of anything. So this quiz is just for fun!

> Just for fun

...or to retarget engineers on FB and other channels :)

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by MichaelBurge »

> Just as the ++ in the name C++ is intended to imply that C++ is a step above C, the # in the name C# is intended to resemble two ++ operators stacked on each other, indicating that C# is a step above C++.

I've sort of followed C# since it was released, and never realized this.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by jscott313 »

krallja wrote: post #22
bryanlarsen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the end was easier than the middle -- the languages there were older and more obscure to a 2017 audience, but that also generally made them much more distinctive.

The questions are selected in a random order from a larger set, so nobody likely saw the same questions or order as you.

Nope, they're always in the same order. Not sure why you'd guess otherwise and state it as fact.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

krallja wrote: post #22
bryanlarsen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the end was easier than the middle -- the languages there were older and more obscure to a 2017 audience, but that also generally made them much more distinctive.

The questions are selected in a random order from a larger set, so nobody likely saw the same questions or order as you.

What evidence do you have of this? Judging by other comments, it's pretty clear everyone got the same questions in the same order.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by [deleted] »

SilasX wrote: post #32
throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

Got 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…

Got 14/15 because I couldn't tell Emacs Lisp from Clojure. Argh ...

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