job question - lisp

pi_e_dra@yahoo.es wrote:
> I think some lisp hacker can give me some opinion about a
> telecommuting job. (Sofware engineer).
>
> At the end of the requirement they make a challenge:
>
> In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a
> muliple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file.
> Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.
>
> (google it)
>
> This is my proposed solution:
>
> (progn (if (= 1 1) (list 'this 'make 'me 'suspicious) (list 'what
> 'do 'you 'think))
> '(list 'bye (or 'wisdom-for-all 'google-group)))


gawk '{print length($0), $0;}'
"do/you/really/wanna/work/with/a/bunch/of/DAes?" |
sort -n | tail -3 | cut --delimiter=' '
-f 1 --complement > /dev/null

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:53:38 -0800 (PST), pi_e_dra@yahoo.es wrote:

> I think some lisp hacker can give me some opinion about a
>telecommuting job. (Sofware engineer).
>
> At the end of the requirement they make a challenge:
>
> In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a
>muliple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file.
>Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.

If they consider _that_ a challenge, I would think seriously before
applying ... it means they want a code monkey rather than a developer.

> (google it)
>
> This is my proposed solution:
>
>(progn (if (= 1 1) (list 'this 'make 'me 'suspicious) (list 'what
>'do 'you 'think))
>'(list 'bye (or 'wisdom-for-all 'google-group)))


George
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