Re^5: On Interviewing and Interview Questions

Yeah, especially if the only editor you can find on the system is "ed". Or whatever ancient VMS systems have by default. Or, you said a random system, what if it's all in Czech? I wonder how much use will the documentation be to you then. Or, still remember you said random, what if it's all in cyrilic? Everything in Russian. Still cool? Japanese? Chinese?

Random means a much wider list of posibilities than "any version of Linux in English".

Jenda
XML sucks. Badly. SOAP on the other hand is the most powerfull vacuum pump ever invented.

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Re^6: On Interviewing and Interview Questions by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2005 at 02:40 UTC
Every system in the world will have an editor that speaks English, especially if it's an older machine. English is the lingua franca¹ of the computing world. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced? A very interesting note - lingua franca is an old Italian phrase meaning "The language of the Franks", or French. French was considered the lingua franca because everyone who was anyone spoke it back in the Middle Ages as the language of diplomacy.	[reply]
Re^7: On Interviewing and Interview Questions by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2005 at 03:14 UTC
A correction to your very interesting note. Lingua Franca was actually a distinct pidgin language, which was used as a trade tongue. It borrowed from various dialects of Italian, Spanish and so on. It got its name from the Arabs who called all Europeans, Franks. French became the language of diplomacy much later.	[reply]