I've become accustomed to being able to edit my work as I go, and find it frustrating to write things on paper. I would say that you were lucky they gave you a white board! On the other hand, with very little practice you will find it easier to do a 'code performance' during an interview.

Not that long ago one of the managers where I work came by my desk and asked me if there was an easy way to count the number of lines in a file. He wanted to do this on an NT box, which didn't have CW. So I grabbed a pen and started writing Perl on my white board. 

# First draft:
perl -we "@ARGV=qq'\42file name\42';1 while <>;print $.,$/"

# Quick, grab the eraser, that sol'n is too long!
# Second draft:
perl -we "1 while <>;print $.,$/" file_name

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While I thought the solution was simple, he eventually decided it simpler to install CYGWIN on the machine (which includes CW) because he didn't understand how the Perl worked.

In reply to RE: Conditioned Response (or lack thereof) by Adam
in thread Conditioned Response (or lack thereof) by Petruchio

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