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esm
Aurora, IL USA
Senior UNIX geek and sport-compact racing nerd.
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Paul Jungwirth wrote: You have the numbers 123456789, in that order. Between each number, you must insert either nothing, a plus sign, or a multiplication sign, so that the resulting expression equals 2001. Write a program that prints all solutions. (There are two.) I think you meant 2002, not 2001. :)
(Just correcting for anyone else like me who obsessively tries to solve little "practice" problems like this one, and then hit Google when their result doesn't match the stated answer. ;) Damn, some of those Perl examples are ugly.)
The Non-Programming Programmer
I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...
Am I the only one who misses "orange"? :) Ah well, march of progress and all that.
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I apologize for the scarcity of updates lately. There have been two things in the way: Continuing fallout from International Backup Awareness Day, which meant all updates to Coding Horror from that point onward were hand-edited text files. Which, believe me, isn't nearly as sexy as it … uh …...
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