If that were the case, I would definitely round out my questions more as you have done and hopefully find a programmer who used accepted concepts in another language.
>>If I had no prospects, maybe - or if they were a lateral move (demonstrated ability in another field or language for our company so I knew their work ethic).
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>We used to do that but found, at least around here, it limited the pool of good developers too much. Right now we have 7 programmers working here and only 2 started with FoxPro knowledge - 1 more if you want to count DBase as FoxPro knowlege. Hince my problem of wanting to know someone skill set with out having it being langauge dependant. In the 2nd interview I do make them do a little pseduocoding.
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