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Handling recursion and pointers is an excellent test of a good programmer, even though modern languages have made that skill itself almost unnecessary.

Drawn from what Joel Spolsky said

On the topicHow should software engineers be interviewed?under our view: Algorithm and data-structure questions are a fair filter that scales, and worth preparing for

What Joel Spolsky actually said

  1. Joel Spolsky Software developer and writer
    Sadly, despite the fact that I think that all good programmers should be able to handle recursion and pointers, and that this is an excellent way to tell if someone is a good programmer, the truth is that these days, programming languages have almost completely made that specific art unnecessary.

    ↗The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)joelonsoftware.com

    25 Oct 2006

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