From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,810843c254562cd8 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded systems programmers worldwide earn failing grades in C Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:09:35 +0100 Message-ID: <7rqnf0F6d5U1@mid.individual.net> References: <3aadd38d-0496-4f61-ba82-d0e1f0c983d2@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <7roqb2Fas8U1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net +5cLp/PQBrPy7fMoRQthigIb9IACaHK5IlfvUAJ9PJ8kdSljg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:ye59qf23a2+fdp6XIEW94oyqgko= User-Agent: KNode/4.4 rc1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8810 Date: 2010-01-21T11:09:35+01:00 List-Id: Keith Thompson wrote: > "Alex R. Mosteo" writes: >> alexandru.chircu@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> http://www.edadesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222300710 >>> >>> I leave the witty remarks to the more regular posters here :). >> >> I just took it, and scored 7/10, with the caveat that >> >> 2 of my failures were partial (I chose one were several were valid), so I >> didn't chose wrong code. >> >> The other is that I rejected a solution that all compilers accepted, so I >> would never write it. >> >> All in all, I have not chosen a single unsafe answer :P > > Are you sure about that? I took the test myself, and as far as I > could tell there was exactly one correct answer for each question, > though some of the incorrect answers were incorrect for fairly subtle > reasons. Well, yes, that's why I scored 7/10 and not 9/10 :P. But in two that I failed, the right one was "all of the above are correct", so my choice wasn't "wrong", in the sense that the answer I chose wasn't unsafe or not portable, which seemed to be the main gripe for the testers. I see that as a problem with how the questions were formulated. I'm not very fond of these kind of tests precisely because it's too easy to ask the wrong questions. Anyway, I was just joking around ;) >> I'm not here to be presumptuous, and I don't write serious C since my >> college years. Thus, this surely must mean that Ada has made me a >> super-safe programmer ;) >