<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just can't believe someone applying for a programmer position cannot > provide a sensible anwser in 5 or less minutes.
Try taking a look at the level of discourse in the Google App Engine group. It's pretty clear that some - let's say "developers" rather than "programmers" - developers are simply interested in acquiring usage patterns for the particular language they're required to develop in. Being able to extend existing patterns or create new solutions is completely outside of their scope of interest or ability. My 'favourite' is the "how do I do x?", "can you show me a working example?", "can you add your example to my code?" sequence, you see a lot of that. I'd honestly expect a lot of the current GAE group posters to fail the FizzBuzz test, especially given that an amazing number of them seem to be constantly griping about not being able to run production code on what is currently only a preview framework. - alex23 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list