I got asked to parse infix notation and figured it out in the 45 minutes despite having no prior experience with parsing anything more complicated than CSV. I a

I got asked to parse infix notation and figured it out in the 45 minutes despite having no prior experience with parsing anything more complicated than CSV. I am not bragging or anything, I just know these discussions are biased towards kvetching so someone has to weigh in for it being possible to accomplish. My field is not computer science and if anything I'm the perfect example of who the infix notation question should be biased against. To be fair the interviewer described my performance as "muscling through it" (exact phrasing changed to protect the innocent) so take it as you will. :) I am aware that there is no way to write this comment without sounding like a boast, but that's just more reason to write it because there are probably a large number of people with the same story who can't balance out the discussion by telling it.