I am actively looking for work as a programmer.
Yesterday, I handed in my solution for a programming test for a C++ shop. Moderate difficulty. Aced it.
Today, I went to a job interview at a company that uses
APL.
"We don't expect you to know APL before you start, we will teach you. Here are the basics of APL: ...."
Then I got three small string operations to write, and two hours to do it in. The assignment would have been childsplay in C, Python or Ruby.... but in APL ... not so much.
I eventually solved the last task right when the time was up, and only after I had got some help.
... And the total code in APL is shorter than this sentence.
(... and no, I did not get to use or even see any sexy APL keyboards, so don't even ask.
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