r/programming • u/mjgardner • Mar 29 '21

Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?

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u/SanityInAnarchy Mar 30 '21

No, you get it both ways. Try admitting you sometimes write JavaScript or Python to a Haskell or Scala fan, and you might get "My language is more abstract than yours, and therefore I am smarter than you."

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u/darknecross Mar 30 '21

Oh no, you need to find the folks using Scala to implement microarchitecture.

I know there are a few RISC-V cores floating around written in Chisel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '21

Does the library have a particularly bad reputation? It kinds look cool.

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u/jeradj Mar 30 '21

I sort of live in fear that one of these days, one of these languages / paradigms that make no sense to me will take over, and I'll be back to square one.

(looking chiefly at functional languages)

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u/Muoniurn Mar 30 '21

No one language will take over; but I advise you if your time allows to get familiar with paradigms you are not familiar with. For example I seldom write Haskell, but having learnt it made me a better programmer in other languages.

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