OT: CS education gone wrong (Was: Re: TDD is BS?)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/21/13 2:50 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 21:33:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> brute-force strstr() is fair game and I think any engineer should be
>> able to lift it off the ground quickly (to my dismay, only a fraction
>> can).
>
> But, should the return value be const or not? :P
>
>
> I think I'd write in D just cuz of inout().

That would be a nice touch and bring bonus points, but in most of the 
cases I tell the candidate to gloss over that detail.

Andrei