Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatten a list?

Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by klibertp on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:37AM (#13725155)

> is going to disorient novices who in a high stress situation at the short end of an asymmetrical relationship.

> What the question really measures is how lucky the candidate was in their education.

Yes! Exactly! This is the other point I wanted to make[1], thanks for doing it for me :)

> flatten =: [: ; <S:0

Nice, I was playing with J quite a lot but somehow missed the spread word (for the curious: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/scapco)

[1] In my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725095

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Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by brudgers on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:43AM (#13725230)

I played with J and have it loaded on an old Android phone...but I copy pasted the code from Rosetta Code after Googling 'flatten a list in Java' which is where I became aware of the <object> issue {racket I knew and clojure I suspected}.

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