Re: not enough real programmers?

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

> prs@gol.com (Peter Stephenson) suggests the job interview task:
> 4.  "Write a program to perform a "perfect shuffle" on an array of 52
> numbers." 

mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene) writes:
> Anybody with a good answer to question 4 doesn't need to be interviewing
> for a job.  There are any number of companies, academic institutions,
> etc. who would like a definitive answer to that problem.

I don't see why that should be a big problem.  The program would simply
use the provided RNG (Random Number Generator).  :-)