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More confusion for recruiters (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>
      <name>foo</name>
    </int>
    <int>
      <name>bar</name>
      <default_value>
        <int>0</int>
      </default_value>
    </int>
  </in>
  <out>
    <int>
      <calculation>
        <numerical_operation>
          <operator_plus>
            <operand>
              <var>foo</var>
            </operand>
            <operand>
              <var>bar</var>
            </operand>
          </operator_plus>
        </numerical_operation>
      </calculation>
    </int>
  </out>
</fun>

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How did you come up with such a ****ingly stupid syntax?!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They probably have experience with Spring

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I imagined what an Elasticsearch query style Python XML syntax would look like.You must share my pain.

[–] luciferofastora 7 points 1 month ago

That's grotesque and you have my condolences

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It haunts me in my dreams

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the world of abusing the shit out of Ant. My first full time job was developing Ant in unholy ways. Tens of thousands of lines of Ant at least, doing significant logic. If-then-else, for loops, math, procedures, date-time math. I stuck it out for a year. It was a year too long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thankfully we have Gradle now.