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I recently tried out the Google "top coder" contest, as a C++
coder. I noticed immediately that they expected me to know STL.
To which I say, what the ****?!
I may be missing something, but at what point when learning C++
was I supposed to have picked up STL? I ask because at every
job I've had, and every job interview for that matter, whenever
STL comes up it's not I, but a manager who says effectively
yuck, we don't use that crap.
To which I say good, I never learned that crap.
Not that I haven't tried using it. The error messages that any
newbie-to-STL is bound to get were 100+ lines long. Really useful!
Google clearly has stacked their contest against C++ programmers,
which means that it is not about "top coders" after all.
coder. I noticed immediately that they expected me to know STL.
To which I say, what the ****?!
I may be missing something, but at what point when learning C++
was I supposed to have picked up STL? I ask because at every
job I've had, and every job interview for that matter, whenever
STL comes up it's not I, but a manager who says effectively
yuck, we don't use that crap.
To which I say good, I never learned that crap.
Not that I haven't tried using it. The error messages that any
newbie-to-STL is bound to get were 100+ lines long. Really useful!
Google clearly has stacked their contest against C++ programmers,
which means that it is not about "top coders" after all.