cute interview problem

[jrlcgmx at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:42:02 UTC+1, Paul Rubin  wrote:
> Ron Aaron posted the below url on comp.lang.forth.  It points to what I
> thought was a cute problem, along with his solution in his Forth dialect
> 8th:
> 
>   https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,1584.msg8720.html
> 
> I wrote a solution in Forth and additional ones in Python and Haskell
> and thought people here might like trying it themselves.  I'll post my
> Python version here in a few days if anyone wants to see it.  Time limit
> for the problem is supposed to be 45 minutes.  I spent a lot longer
> because I ended up writing several versions in various languages.

I dont think its cute at all.
how did the interview go?