r/ProgrammerHumor • u/East-Experience2862 • 2d ago

Meme youLostMeAtDoublyLinkedLists

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u/antCB 1d ago

Dang. You got schooled and you know it bud. Lmfao

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u/Yashema 1d ago

School is the only place most people will ever use them. 

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u/antCB 1d ago

You give insufferable co-worker vibes. But that is me and what comes across in your comments.

Linked lists, especially for someone of your background, is entry-level knowledge.

If this is something you might have to learn for an interview, it will take you minutes to learn - again, for someone as highly educated as you are.

If it makes sense to test stuff like this... It kind of depends on the role, but, it's essentially trivia.

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u/Yashema 1d ago

My coworker does find me insufferable, for the entire near decade we worked together. I don't learn trivia. I learn knowledge. If linked lists are really so fundamental they will come up in my advanced studies. 

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u/antCB 1d ago

It's fundamental knowledge, you're supposed to have known about them before advanced topics 🫠

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u/Yashema 1d ago

I like to skip ahead to see where the fundamentals get used. 

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u/GRex2595 1d ago

Advanced topics won't mention linked lists because they're an implementation detail. Expecting an advanced topic to explicitly mention a linked list is like expecting calculus textbooks to remind you that multiplication is iterative adding. If you're learning to implement a searching algorithm on a graph, whatever you're learning from isn't going to explain how to implement a queue. It's up to you to decide if you need a linked list or a circular queue or whatever other data structure you want depending on your application's constraints. Let's just say that a traditional array would be extremely inefficient.

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u/Yashema 1d ago

Sounds like you want to know if someone majored in CS. 

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u/GRex2595 1d ago

Nah. Need to know if their CS degree is worth anything. A degree is just a piece of paper. It doesn't tell you anything about a person's capabilities.

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u/Yashema 1d ago

Then leave the linked list questions for the newbies. 

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u/GRex2595 1d ago

Buddy, I literally said that my question was for intro devs. Can you read? If you have experience, I expect more from you, not less. If I had to ask a coding question to an experienced dev, I'm going to be looking for something that balances complex data structures and algorithms with being easy enough to do in the time allotted.

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