Comment Poorly Phrased Question (Score 2) 511
When I read "_how_ C strings work...", I began to think of what I knew about how the C language is actually implemented. And frankly, I don't know how C is implemented (eg. what happens after parsing, how things get converted to CPU instructions). Even though I've spent a fair bit of time writing in the language, I would have stumbled on that question and perhaps have asked you to clarify (something a younger person is less likely to do).
When I read your answer, I realized you were asking "how are strings defined in C" or "how do you use C with string types".
See the difference? On that alone, I guess you may have screened out a lot of good people.
Tangentially, this is also a good reason to not pay too much attention to survey results unless you have actually read the questions that were asked in the survey.