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My point is that in higher-level languages you might spend your entire career not thinking about how your data is laid out and what points to what, while in C++ you are exposed to this reality daily even if you are working on trivial problems.

That is my hypothesis on why some people might consider inverting a binary tree an unrealistically complex problem. If you are not able to solve this problem without thinking too much you are probably not being able to write working C++ at all, but might still be able to even solve real business issues with, say, Javascript.



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