Todays enticing job prospect.. v2

**Joe Black** · 2 November 2005, 15:10

I know people who started developing using the Beta 2...mind you that still leaves a couple years short.

**AtW** · 2 November 2005, 15:22

Gee people, are you programmers or what?

The ideal candidate will have 7 years commercial experience using C# and Sybase/SQL or Oracle with 3 of those being within an investment bank.

Evaluate: C# AND Sybase OR Oracle, or to put it more simply:

false && true || true is what???

Its just a test and the agent is not stupid - he is just using this to separate wheat from chuff.

**EddieC** · 2 November 2005, 15:31

separate wheat from chuff.

Just as well you didn't have to sit an English exam then.

**Joe Black** · 2 November 2005, 15:32

What are we AtW? I think the majority of people here are native english speakers who realise that the and/or's in the sentence can mean totally different things depending on the emphasis the agent intended.

Edit: you beat me to it Eddie.

**BlasterBates** · 2 November 2005, 15:51

I dunno depends whether you're chaff or just chuffed.

**Joe Black** · 2 November 2005, 15:56

Don't confuse him BB!, AtW obviously knows that a chuff is just the singular form of 'chavs'...

**luke warm** · 2 November 2005, 17:02

Originally posted by AtW

Gee people, are you programmers or what?

Evaluate: C# AND Sybase OR Oracle, or to put it more simply:

false && true || true is what???

Its just a test and the agent is not stupid - he is just using this to separate wheat from chuff.

depends on operator precedence in english
(false && true) || true != false && (true || true)

**expat** · 2 November 2005, 18:57

Originally posted by luke warm

depends on operator precedence in english
(false && true) || true != false && (true || true)

Yes, or even in rational thought. If someone asks for
(language) AND (dbms) OR (other dbms)
it seems "logical" to think that he wants a language AND a dbms, but there is a choice of which dbms. that is, rationally, the OR binds the dbmses first.

**Joe Black** · 2 November 2005, 20:06

Emphasis

Yes, logically that makes the most sense as Oracle by itself wouldn't generally be a replacement for both C# and Sybase, but then again it depends which Oracle skills they have in mind.

The distinguishing factor at times though is emphasis which is hard to determine in the example.

In anycase if AtW's idea of English is that its some simple programatic formula then he'll find himself getting the wrong end of the stick more often than not.

Joe in "my middle name is pF" mode.

Todays enticing job prospect.. v2