>>>>>>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.
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>We are so lucky these days. I think you are roughly, uh, as seasoned as I am and remember the old days. There were no IDEs. There were punch card decks. If you were lucky you got two turnarounds a day. If you mistyped an instruction and got an assembly error you had seriously messed up. Desk checking your code was a major pastime. Now the IDE catches it for us instantaneously. If you sat one of those long ago programmers down with Visual Studio they would think they had died and gone to heaven.

I took my first computer course in 8th grade. It was a course in ALGOL, and we used punched cards that were sent out nightly to a UNIVAC 1107 somewhere near Boston (apparently this was an already phased out behemoth that our school system rented time from).

IIRC by the end of the course we could successfully graph a function using an ASCII quasi bar graph.

What an amazing PITA.

I didn't write a program for another computer until my last year in Aero Engineering in college (at which point I changed majors to computer science like a complete idiot).