Subject: Re: How to ID good talent (was: Re: Java as an indicator of stupidity)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/01/22
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <86atqd$scj7a@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Graham Perkins  <gperkins@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
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| Bruce Hoult wrote:
| > > "what do you do outside work" is a key question.
| > My answer: ...reading SF.
| 
| Sorry, you just lost the job.
| (it was that last answer that did it, you sad git ;-)
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What's wrong with that answer??!?  "SF" and "science fiction"
are both perfectly respectable monikers for the genre. Only the
term "sci-fi" is considered gauche.


-Rob

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