Subj : Re: Auto-grading aptitude tests
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Wolfgang Riedel
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 12:21 pm

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) writes:
> 
> > Suppose the computer-run test was truly interactive, where the
> > applicant could fill in something, then the program would check it and
> > discard the parts that don't fit the desired pattern, and give one free
> > letter as a clue what's missing, and then the applicant would get
> > another chance, etc. as many clues as needed until the applicant gets
> > the correct answer?
> 
> I'd like to buy a vowel.
> --
> "Long noun chains don't automatically imply security."
> --Bruce Schneier

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