Attn code monkeys - re: FizzBuzz

[Spacecadet]

and my comment

Just seen it, classic

[Pondlife]

and my comment

Quality MF

[_V_]

I would like to see AtW's solution using XML, XSLT and XPATH.

[Spacecadet]

I would like to see AtW's solution using XML, XSLT and XPATH.

http://tickletux.wordpress.com/2007/.../#comment-3015

[OwlHoot]

Someone mentioned this FizzBuzz thing the other day at work, and one site I looked at spoke about "golf" and "golfing". In the context it appeared this related to obfuscated and/or compact programming, but I'd never come across the expression.

[threaded]

Why can't it be done in assembly?

threaded.

Well comment #3 shows quite a lack of knowledge and/or experience. In assembly I can do that without creating a third variable, and many HLLs actually have this embedded in a function, and in a threaded or stack based language I can think of three or four isomorphisms to the xor trick.

That's actually one of the issues I have with interviews. I know the stuff so much better than the interviewer that I have to work out, pretty quickly, their competance level, and give them the answers they expect. You also have to check out their personality types: many interviewers like to show off in front of their boss, so you have to give defference be a little bumbling etc. etc.

So, my conclusion is: what a load of ball5.

[threaded]

Doh! I think I get the joke now. The posts are people writing answers but the answers have subtle and not so subtle bugs in them.

[Magnus]

Doh! I think I get the joke now. The posts are people writing answers but the answers have subtle and not so subtle bugs in them.

Exactly, and I'm disappointed no-one posted any code in this thread. I saw this discussed on several web sites and in every one of them the first instinct of lots of readers was to post their version of the code, and about half of them were wrong. That would have made for a pretty amusing thread here.