On: Do you strive to understand your tools, or simply “make it work”?

[aangjie]

///Even just the assumption that statements are to be executed in a particular sequence greatly affects the outcome of tests like this and you may have to specify such a thing up-front if you expect people to be on a level playing field.

I was guilty of forgetting this in a programming interview and gave an answer from algebra.Needless to say interview went downhill very soon.