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by blackflame7000 2612 days ago
Exactly! The field is so large and growing rapidly that it’s unnecessary to memorize the inner workings (especially down to the node pointer level in c++ where you’re begging for trouble and it will be a nightmare to maintain unless you have a performance specific reason not to use the stl)

IMO being able to say “I don’t know the the specifics, but I would use dijkstra’s algorithm on this problem” shouldn’t disqualify you because you couldn't code it.