I've started asking in interviews what people thought was wrong with a particular language or environment and if they had any thoughts as to features they would want added (or removed).
That reminds me of an interview I did years ago with a Computer Science grad student. His area of study was in compilers, and he said his strongest language was C.
So, I asked him: "what would you improve in C? What's less than ideal about it?" He couldn't tell me a single thing.
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I've started asking in interviews what people thought was wrong with a particular language or environment and if they had any thoughts as to features they would want added (or removed).
That reminds me of an interview I did years ago with a Computer Science grad student. His area of study was in compilers, and he said his strongest language was C.
So, I asked him: "what would you improve in C? What's less than ideal about it?" He couldn't tell me a single thing.