Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/04/2012 22:03, Dan Sommers wrote:
> These days, every job interview includes (or should include!)
> questions regarding which structures and which algorithms are
> better (or worse) for which circumstances, not to mention
> questions about algorithm complexity and big-O-notation.  I find
> that people who *understand* the built-ins can *use* them much
> more effectively than people who don't.
>
> And that's the difference between "serious programmers" and "most
> programmers."
>
> Dan

Reminds me of a design review at which the database manager stated that 
a binary chopping algorithm would be used.  Someone queried this, 
stating that a hashing algorithm would be better suited to the task. 
The reply was "What's a hashing algorithm?".  Last I heard the person 
who made this quote was a director of the last major defence contractor 
in the UK.

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.