For an interview for a computational sciences group where there are many challenging problems in optimization, convergence, algorithm design etc. I thought this was a rather silly question and hardly pertinent to what it takes to solve hard problems.

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Interview Question for Upstream Research at Exxon Mobil:

Why is the M in Makefile capitalized ?

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