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Nobody chose Python, ML, or Haskell. Some chose Perl, which I took as a promising sign, but they didn't do any better than the ones who chose C++ or Java. Act
by dkarl 16y ago
Nobody chose Python, ML, or Haskell. Some chose Perl, which I took as a promising sign, but they didn't do any better than the ones who chose C++ or Java.
Actually conceiving of the solution was the roadblock for most, but the ones who got past that struggled to figure out the recursion -- what should be the signature of the recursive function?
- jules 16y agoThey couldn't even figure out the type of a function that takes a string and returns a list of permutations? That is...unexpected. One wonders how so much working software gets written.