{"id":43114233,"user":"Clubber","time":1740057209,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

A function returns a value.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/721090/what-is-the-diffe...","comments":[{"id":43115446,"user":"aleph_minus_one","time":1740063458,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

> A function returns a value

... in Pascal/Delphi.","comments":[{"id":43116155,"user":"Clubber","time":1740066648,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yup, it was for a Delphi job in 1998.","comments":[{"id":43121221,"user":"vips7L","time":1740090798,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Isn't this something the compiler is going to enforce anyway? Why does it matter? If that's the only difference it's kind of inconsequential isn't it?","comments":[{"id":43121932,"user":"Clubber","time":1740094336,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's a question to filter out people who don't know a lick of Delphi for a position where the person was coding Delphi. It's like level 2 after the hello world chapter. It's easier than asking a database developer the difference between a query and a view. It's a bonehead simple question that 70% of applicants couldn't answer.

You would be surprised how many bad applicants interviewers get. It's only gotten worse over the last 20 years.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=43121932"}],"comments_count":1,"level":2,"url":"item?id=43121221"}],"comments_count":2,"level":1,"url":"item?id=43116155"}],"comments_count":3,"level":0,"url":"item?id=43115446"}],"comments_count":4,"url":"item?id=43114233"}

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