In an
on-campus interview that I had with
Sun, for a job doing
Solaris kernel development, my
interviewers and I discussed
/usr/dict/words at pretty good length. How to
compress it, store it, update it,
et cetera,
et cetera.
But mostly I listened to them (it was a 2-on-1 interview) discuss amongst themselves how small and inadequate the /usr/dict/words distributed as part of Solaris is. The word "sparse" was used quite frequently.
(In case you were wondering, the consensus was that some sort of tree structure was the way to go, although they did have me explain Huffman coding.)
(Also, in case you were wondering, they never called me back. I also never called them back, so I suppose we're even... I didn't want to work out in California anyway, and besides, "Solaris sucks" according to an AIX developer I know. I had always thought that it was alright, but never having used AIX, I can't say that it doesn't suck, relatively..)