In article <dac0a5820909031501q676cda3dvab7ccafa331b3...@mail.gmail.com>, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdhar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> C shall be the test. If you don't even understand C, explained by K&R, >> then do something else. >i agree to this completely. after taking a formal course in computers, >if someone cannot read/follow K&R C book and cannot write C code, i >would think that the candidate is not good enough.
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