[Aloisius]

Pfft. I feel like I could teach pointers to someone who had a firm grasp of any iterative language in less than 15 minutes.

Heck, I'm pretty sure I could teach pointers to someone who has only worked in matlab occasionally by cut-and-pasting others code in less than 30.

And teaching someone something new during an interview and seeing if they can understand it and then turn around and use it is far more valuable for interviewing the types of people I want to hire than asking them random questions they could find the answer to on google in less than a minute.