From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T16:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:22:40 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 1. I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but somewhere in the great 
> electronic beyond there is a blog posting by someone who describes the 
> hiring process at Amazon. One of the things they look for is someone who 
> can bang out a quick solution to massive text crunching problems using 
> regular expressions, either in Perl or more primitive command line 
> tools. I don't recall whether Python or Ruby were "acceptable".

I think that was Steve Yegge's blog post - he used to work for Amazon, now
works for Google:

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/five-essential-phone-screen-questions

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