I've been reading Dreaming in Code lately, and I really like it. If you're not a dreamer, you may safely skip the rest of this post ;) In Chapter 10, "Engineers and Artists", Alan Kay, John Backus, and Jaron Lanier really got me thinking. I've also been thinking a lot about Minix 3 , Erlang , and the original Lisp machine . The ideas are beginning to synthesize into something cohesive--more than just the sum of their parts. Now, I'm sure that many of these ideas have already been envisioned within Tunes.org , LLVM , Microsoft's Singularity project, or in some other place that I haven't managed to discover or fully read, but I'm going to blog them anyway. Rather than wax philosophical, let me just dump out some ideas: Start with Minix 3. It's a new microkernel, and it's meant for real use, unlike the original Minix. "This new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code.&quo
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Total points: 310
Bonus points: 39
Number correct: 40
Number incorrect: 10
Number skipped: 0
Fastest answer: 3.24 seconds
Slowest answer: 15.61 seconds
Average answer: 6.38 seconds
I wish it had been 25 instead of 50, but it was kind of fun anyway. I wonder what language I didn't recognize? Some of them were questionable.
It tells you at the end what you knew and didn't know.
> Some of them were questionable.
Yeah, agreed. One of the questions I missed showed a piece of SQL, and two of the answers were from different SQL books.
Is PL/SQL really SQL? Not by any standard I know of (but I put it there anyway). Isn't XSLT valid XML? would you have gotten it correct if you had marked it that way? Are shell commands code (language not listed) or not code?
If I recall correctly, it tells you what questions you got wrong, but not what bonus point questions you got wrong.