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Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by endgame »

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 ...

The [ ] around the args are the giveaway.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by dunham »

twic wrote: post #47
arethuza wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ditto. I'm positive that code would be valid Perl with the right libraries. Which isn't saying much.

Same here, because I knew they intersected and presumed it was a trick question. Technically, I believe it is neither valid perl nor PHP because it's missing an opening brace on one of the if statements.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by rmrfrmrf »

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.

The lovely globals (e.g. `$_GET`) are what give PHP away.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by dvcrn »

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 ...

defn vs defun :)

I remembered it somehow as "clojure doesn't allow you to define fun"

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by still_grokking »

Too easy (15/15). Had only once to look a second time at the code snippet (elisp vs. clojure, but there were [] around the param, that made it clear).

Would be more fun if they would implement the same code snippet in different (but maybe quite similar) languages and one would have to label the (lets say six for an interesting difficulty level) snippets.

Re: Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz

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Post by monocasa »

compumike wrote: post #14
viach wrote: post #12

So 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.

Demonstrated how?
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