2026-02-28 19:35 UTC
In days of yore, it was common to ask junior programmers a "fizzbuzz" question to test extremely basic ability to write code.
One such question was, “Write a function that takes as its argument a string, and returns whether the string contains balanced parentheses.”
https://raganwald.com/2018/11/14/dyck-joke.html
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@raganwald@functional.cafe 2026-02-28 19:38
The relationship between the types of machines that recognize valid expressions in a language, classes of computation, and classes of language grammars is extremely interesting, even if the some of the essays written about it are brutal: https://raganwald.com/2019/02/14/i-love-programming-and-programmers.html