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From: aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk/2 article in JOOP
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lovejoya@ix.netcom.com(Alan Lovejoy ) writes:
<snip> 
> I'm also reminded of one of my favorite questions when interviewing
> job candidates for Smalltalk programming positions:
> 
>     "What's the superclass of Object class?"
> 
> Unless I'm looking for a trainee, the candidate who answers this
> wrong will not be hired.

This seems a bit restrictive.  In 10 years of writing commercial
applications in Smalltalk, I have never come across a situation
where this was a relevant piece of information to my job.

Just out of curiosity, what is its relevance in your opinion?

  Cheers,
  Alan

