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My favorite question to the programming language expert
- lsh123 12y agoThis is a great question as long as the interviewer is prepared that the reply might not necessarily match his/her opinion. Otherwise, the interview might end up in a ugly discussion of two opinionated people. EDIT: fixed stupid typo
- npcomplete 12y agoAbsolutely. There's nothing wrong with differing from the interviewer so long as you can clearly articulate the issue.
- dpritchett 12y agoI feel like "my favorite interpreted language is slow" is a bit of a cop-out. Granted, it's the first thing that comes to mind when I try to enumerate the things I dislike about working in Ruby, but it's not really an interesting answer. I might point to simple aesthetic things like JSON-style hashes of symbols looking funny: example = { a: :b } => { a: :b } example[:a] => :b Or maybe "the way it imports things mean I wind up grepping code / googling docs rather than just looking at the top of the calling file to see the origin of an imported object, and then sometimes I find myself over-stating the namespace for an object just so Ruby won't get it wrong". Compare to python: from big_library import named_method I suppose it's a pretty good question and a reasonable proxy for "so you have actually worked in this language for many, many hours, right?"