Re: Testing job applicants

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Zefram Cochrane (zefram@daystrom.bog) wrote:
: : Though one interesting idea used at my university, until a year or two ago,
: : was to use a little know language called Meranda (?).  A couple of friends,
: : who were mathematically inclined, took the course and enjoyed both the
: : instruction and playing with the language.  But that was then . . .

: Would that be Miranda, the functional Language, derived from SASL,
: but all strongly compile-time typed ? I was using this some thirteen
: years ago.

You are probably correct, but they switched to C++ for the computer science
courses a while ago so I odds are that I will never run into the language.
Which is too bad, since it did sound quite interesting at the time.

Anyway, thanks for the correction,
Byron.