>>>>>Metin,
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>>>>>Lisa G is every VFP's secret mistress. It stands for Load, Init, SetFocus, Activate and GotFocus. It's the event order when you run a form. Other objects miss some of these events, but the order in which they happen is always the same.
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>>>>That makes that type interviews silly.. I know this order for load-init-setfocus and gotfocus and easly find activate's order with wait windows when needed but don't know Lisa G word.
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>>>I agree. There may be some clique that came up with that acronym but it is not common knowledge, and has nothing to do with whether someone knows VFP.
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>>I've listened in on a similar "interview" on Java, which was full of questions totally unrelated to actually getting things done, but rather oriented to knowing the formal differences between this and that, or "will this compile?" questions. Who cares? Formal differences matter when you write a paper, not as much when you write code - in the latter case, it's the different behaviors that do. Will it compile? Easy to check, that's what we have compilers for.
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>>It actually gets me deurinated each time when someone expects a programmer to do this or that so not to irk the compiler. It's a stupid piece of code on a stupid machine, let it do its job, don't force your programmer to do machine's job. He's got better things to think about.
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>I've walked out of a few interviews when they start playing trivial pursuit with syntax or irrelevant/obscure terminology.
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>I have an IDE that has intellisense and a compiler that will catch my errors. I have no intention of writing syntactically correct programs in the sand on a desert island.

I've found it very annoying to have a technical test on a PC where they've removed help and any internet access. Usually end up writing some sort of pseudo code to show what I want to do.