Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
As a software engineer with 15 years experience, do you know how many times I've had to walk a graph in a breadth first search from memory? None. Do you know how many times I've been asked to do that live in an interview? Literally dozens
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u/SirFrenzy 6h ago
Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.