Quote Originally Posted by dglienna
I didn't learn about linked lists until I took some C++ courses. They just weren't taught 20 years ago. I have since implemented them in VB, as they are helpful. I suppose in twenty years, programmers will have a hard time figuring out what we are doing. Things change in computers.

I wouldn't try too hard to start coding their way. Once you get something done that works, maybe they'll look at it and like it. You have to take that chance. If it works out, then great. If it doesn't, you can be glad that you don't own that company.
You had poor instructors then. Lists (ordered, linked, double linked and so on) are all basic. Back in 1980 we used the Knuth's series of books on algorithms - this stuff is from 1950 - nothing has changed at all - nothing ever will. The SQL I'm finally using in production right now is from SYBASE - from decades ago.

We had to develop our own RDBMS system on the mainframe - our own "data field equation" processors. Imagine building your own INDEX files and every time a data record is written to a table - imagine having to handle bucket splits when the new keys don't fit. Imagine doing that in 1985.

The only difference I see now is that when I started there was no college majors for Computer Science - now that there is, we end up with people I wish I never hired.

I've seen people on this forum ask about the fastest sort - and then debate it - like sorting is new.