shuffle.erl

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-module(shuffle).
-export([shuffle/1]).

shuffle(List) -> shuffle(List, []).

shuffle([], Acc) -> Acc;

shuffle(List, Acc) ->
    {Leading, [H | T]} = lists:split(random:uniform(length(List)) - 1, List),
    shuffle(Leading ++ T, [H | Acc]).