I am quite disappointed with the knowledge demonstrated by wannabe C++ programmers today. Hardly anyone knows what

#x
and
x##y
preprocessor directives do, and only few can explain the danger in preprocessor macros with parameters. If the things keep going this way, in 5 years no one will know what
extern "C"
means.

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    Sept. 2, 2006, 8:42 p.m. - Dave  
    Hope you're not talking about me with this comment! See you for early starts all next week, then?
    Reply
    Sept. 2, 2006, 9:16 p.m. - Andre  
    One of them thought that sizeof(char) was equal to 2!
    Reply
    Sept. 2, 2006, 8:59 p.m. - Andre  
    I was actually referring to the guys whom I interviewed for the role, taken by M. eventually. Some of them were very low quality...
    Reply
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