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Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by contravariant on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:01PM (#13725944)
I suppose a fair counter question would be how on earth the interviewer ended up with a couple of nested heterogeneous lists in Java, instead of a simple Tree data structure.
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Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by dllthomas on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:59PM (#13727238)
If you look at the actual, original question it was presumably a textual serialization of a simple data structure.
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