Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:03:33 -0600, spinoza1111 wrote
(in article
<4958c178-49ec-403d-a8ae-64fd06d649fd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

I have an idea for reducing the cyberbullying at this ng which I've
also used at humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare.

It is "The Spinoza Challenge".

I will take a test on a programming topic without special preparation
and closed book, and report my score, along with information as to my
overall familiarity with the tested platform, language or topic.

My first Spinoza Challenge: beat my score: I just took the C++ test
that is available on Spark Notes at
http://www.sparknotes.com/cs/c++fundamentals/review/quiz.html
and received 76%.

I've just started using C++, practically for the first time (although
I've done some maintenance on C++ code in the past). I've always
wanted to learn it, and I am using it in this thread to evaluate and
to wrap the "Beautiful" regex parser in Beautiful Code.

Beat my score on this or any other online-available test without
special preparation and report them to this thread.

I extend my special invitation to Randy Howard and Richard Heathfield.

Okay, I bit. I haven't written anything in C++ since 1997, so I wasn't
expecting a whole lot, especially since I know a lot of things have
changed there in recent years, but the test was pretty simplistic,
modulo a few grammatical errors. There may be other problems with the
test as is, but I don't have enough recent exposure to the language to
evaluate it. Perhaps Richard can clarify, if he bothers to look.

At any rate, I scored 86%, which I'm not particularly proud of, but
there you have it.

--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw





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