I'm sure you already get where I'm coming from, but it's not as if being a "dictionary" is a bad thing. Some of the sharpest coders I knew where guys who had vast swaths of minutiae memorized. But people so often fail to appreciate the difference between correlation and causation.
Those super-sharp coders weren't amazing code jockeys because they had memorized all that crap. They managed to memorize all that crap - over a span of years - as a side-effect of the fact that they're amazing coders. But just having everything memorized doesn't make you a good coder.
It's kinda like chess. The grandmaster have tons of openings memorized. But they're not grandmasters because they've memorized those openings. The opening memorization came as a side effect on the road to becoming a grandmaster. If you were trying to evaluate the skills of an unknown chess player, it would be silly to just quiz them on their knowledge of openings. I've actually met numerous very-low-level chess players who have an impressive command of openings... but they're still very weak chess players.
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I'm sure you already get where I'm coming from, but it's not as if being a "dictionary" is a bad thing. Some of the sharpest coders I knew where guys who had vast swaths of minutiae memorized. But people so often fail to appreciate the difference between correlation and causation.
Those super-sharp coders weren't amazing code jockeys because they had memorized all that crap. They managed to memorize all that crap - over a span of years - as a side-effect of the fact that they're amazing coders. But just having everything memorized doesn't make you a good coder.
It's kinda like chess. The grandmaster have tons of openings memorized. But they're not grandmasters because they've memorized those openings. The opening memorization came as a side effect on the road to becoming a grandmaster. If you were trying to evaluate the skills of an unknown chess player, it would be silly to just quiz them on their knowledge of openings. I've actually met numerous very-low-level chess players who have an impressive command of openings... but they're still very weak chess players.