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A comment on Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go. Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go by IshKebab on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:48AM (#32448314)
I'm not sure I follow - interview questions are supposed to be about deriving things, not reciting/applying them. In any case I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. You aren't hiring Dijkstra.
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Re:Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go by google234123 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @03:02PM (#32452734)
You are right. However they also test that you know and are able apply and recite the fundamentals.
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