[sigjuice]

Amen. Who writes code on paper in real life anyway? The font is wrong, there is no backspace and you can't insert and remove lines. Interviewers have some nerve demanding proper syntax.

Give me a laptop with just a text editor and watch over my shoulder.

[wladh]

I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not, but would you hire a programmer who can't compute "2+3" in his head? The same argument can be made for basic maths operations: we all have calculators (applications).