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mseebach on Aug 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Deve...

If they did indeed do that without understanding how a linked list works, then they're not going to do very well at it.

andrewvc on Aug 26, 2012 [–]

Surprisingly most software devs I've met understand arrays and hashes, but few know what a linked list is.

I think this is an artifact on many of them using high level languages where linked lists are rarely used.

That's no excuse though

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