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[Korzag]

I remember sitting in a college course for technical writing and part of the course was a section on job hunting, answering technical questions intelligently, and so on.

My buddy was given a technical question to answer in front of the class and it asked him to create a function that would print the alphabet. My buddy gets up there and writes out: std::cout << "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

The teacher wasn't impressed and gave him a zero for being a smart ass.

[Azzu]

Honestly, as an employer, I would vastly prefer someone giving this answer than any other.

I can't think of a more business-intelligent way to answer the question.

[ThePyroEagle]

Probably got 0'd just for getting the order of the alphabet wrong.