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Interview Question for Upstream Research at Exxon Mobil:
Feb 13, 2012

Why is the M in Makefile capitalized ?

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Feb 13, 2012

by Interview Candidate:

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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Oct 3, 2012

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Because in this way the Makefile will show up at the top of "ls" list
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