Rajiv Popat: Easier Than Fizz Buzz - Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1?

"That was interesting. But what was even more interesting was the actual program the candidates were being asked to solve. If Jeff Atwood wonders why programmers can't program, when they can't solve Fizz Buzz; here's a problem that is much more easier than Fizz Buzz and yet:

1. About 14% just couldn't solve the problem in less then 10 minutes - which is when we moved on to the next question.
2. About 40% took more than 5 minutes to solve the problem and / or had to be corrected more than once.
3. Only about 14% could solve this problem in 2 minutes or less.
4. About 82% had to be corrected at-least once before they solved the problem. (which means they actually got it wrong the first time around!)

And the problem they were solving?

Print 100 to 1."

Consider me flabbergasted.

(For the record, I 'solved' it in about 10 seconds of typing and in 3 lines of code).