[Edu-sig] Fwd: Which way did the chicken cross the road?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > He was surprised by a student from Israel, who developed an equally
> > valid solution which swept the array in *decreasing* (right-to-left)
> > positional order.  He wondered how much growing up reading r-to-l
> > Hebrew instead of a l-to-r European language influenced the way the
> > student conceptualized the problem.

Interesting...  I would have guessed that a Hebrew student would draw
an array like this:

  [9] [8] [7] [6] [5] [4] [3] [2] [1] [0]

i.e. use ascending indices in r-to-l order.  But apparently he drew it
like we do, and simply reversed his notion of "first" index.  Very
curious!  Nice quote, Jason!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)