The Linux Society

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/topten.html

or Top 10 ways to get screwed by C

Competions are bad for one's health


Having had time to reflect on the whole 'interview process', it was really was not what I was expecting, it was the weirdest interview I'd ever had.

It's just focused purly on coding ablity in a single Language, rather than understanding of systems, or the ablity to be inventive with code.

It was a Coding competion!!!! are they are rather dangerous. Okay you might get a whizz coder, but them may produce solutions that are way way over the top. I think the way they are choosing who contributes and who doesn't is rather elitist to say the least.

I'm not going to mention what project it was, or those involved just to prove that it's not me just having bad feelings for my apparent 'failure'. This is a cristism that , this competion based coding fest is wrong. Nobody told me it was a coding contest, if it was I don't think I'd of wasted my time doing it lots of propal on what the 'code' would be doing.

To add insult to injury, they still said they liked my Idea, and thought it
would be useful for the project. But after such a flat rejection on not being in the top 'Student' C coder in the country, it's really put me off the idea of contributing to the project.

It's interesting to note that not many Uni's still see C as a useful language to teach. I don't know whether this is a bad or good thing, but it certainly makes project such as this much harder for students to get into?

I'll use C if I have to, but it's not a language I'd choose for anything that not system level, and we're not even talking c++. So this project seems to be a clique of advance C programmers, rather than programmers making good open source solutions.

It's left a bad taste in my mouth, but hey..on wards and up wards.