Time flies while you're having fun, but then one day your bio says something about being a 30+ year veteran in software engineering. Still, I've not seen it all, let alone done it all (yet).
It is, if you like, the difference between theory and application, or the difference between a computer scientist and a software engineer. I'm not knocking either, but the world needs orders of magnitude more engineers than scientists.
But, let's not make a virtue out of ignorance. You might not need to know how merge-sort works, but you'll be a better engineer if you do.
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It is, if you like, the difference between theory and application, or the difference between a computer scientist and a software engineer. I'm not knocking either, but the world needs orders of magnitude more engineers than scientists.
But, let's not make a virtue out of ignorance. You might not need to know how merge-sort works, but you'll be a better engineer if you do.