Monoid Mary> There is another possible problem that had not even occurred to me. The candidate failed the trivial question because they tried to write the answer in Java.
Marc Saegesser@argumatronic "In Haskell or even in Perl you are always worrying about whether you are doing something in the cleanest and the best way. In Java, you can forget about doing it in the cleanest or the best way, because that is impossible."
Some really good points in that blog post.