Haha, thanks for the schooling. I looked it up and it turns out I studied them in scheme back in the day. I just didn't know the term, so I'd (probably) come off as incompetent in an interview where asked.
> This is exactly what I'm talking about: A good programmer who can't understand and reason about a linked list, that's very unusual.
Well put then, I say rather chagrined ;-)
My intended point though was that sometimes you can't tell how good of an engineer someone is by asking them about things you know. Better to ask them to talk about what they know. But that's not very controversial I'd hope!
> This is exactly what I'm talking about: A good programmer who can't understand and reason about a linked list, that's very unusual.
Well put then, I say rather chagrined ;-)
My intended point though was that sometimes you can't tell how good of an engineer someone is by asking them about things you know. Better to ask them to talk about what they know. But that's not very controversial I'd hope!