Loved it at the time (early 90s).

Having the same indentation is why I did it originally, now it's a habit - I do get younger devs pointing out the editor highlighting support regularly though!

Will anyone look back on today's tools with such fond memories?

My lord, how long I've just spent on that ......

Get promoted again - eventually you reach a level where devs rant about you ........ oh!

Yes, get promoted

Is LocalDate not going to work?

Knowing you hacked it is they key. Think of the poor souls whose first/best/last solution was the same - and they didn't acknowledge the hack.....

Quick fix - no time

For me (and I recall when the ide / editor didn't colour syntax or make it easy to find the type) variations of Hungarian notation were useful - but with today's tools, for me it's clutter.

Still find myself starting to name variables in that way sometimes!

@davidcondrey - I guess mileage may vary :/

In my experience the approach says much about the hiring company, a good test / pairing exercise should bring out strengths from the candidate and highlight areas needing support (everyone has something to learn/improve) - without being too stressful.

Maybe too many interviewers get onto the extreme end of interviewing - my current organisation is doing this well (in my opinion). I'd certainly rant about an interview that was designed to stress or cause people to doubt themselves!

Unfortunately many people can interview much better this they Candi the job and many managers are slow to accept they have made an error when hiring.

The best teams/companies I have worked in have had a sit down/pairing coding test - really does eliminate this type of problem!

Not just me then!

Don't worry most dates last only a day

@devoverflow

Are you entitled to work in the UK?

Have my copy from '95 and still relevant.

At least they waited until half finished. Previously I worked on a project that had been sold from some initial concept sketches - found out about new features that had been promised every time we attempted to deliver - then the customer was being promised more work (no one informed dev team) as compensation for not having the original on-time.

Guess the boss understood recursion after all!

@gilgameshcoder or "one small change"

How about "Copy and Paste"

Be nice 😂

C for me