I agree, and I prioritize data structures myself as well, but only because I've been up here in the hizzle for the past three or so years (in a development care

I agree, and I prioritize data structures myself as well, but only because I've been up here in the hizzle for the past three or so years (in a development career of six years) and I kept being reminded of it via the linus quote, and the whole functional programming kazoo. My experience is that lots of people, including people with many more years of development on me, don't take this approach though.