if someone doesn't have experience with arrays, then they don't have enough experience with programming to hire them to program for you. they are still on page 9 of the programming book

Specifically, this one.
The Usborne guide to Better BASIC: a beginners guide to writing programs (1983)

See? Page 9. Arrays.

@foone I've posted this page from Usborne's guide to jargon before and commented that I'd be happy if all programmers were as computer literate as grade school students in the 80s.