You seem to have painted yourself into the corner where you're not willing to accept the reasoning everyone else has provided in the comments. The point has alw

You seem to have painted yourself into the corner where you're not willing to accept the reasoning everyone else has provided in the comments. The point has always been that any developer can learn what a linked list is with hints and collaboration. The prejudice that I see in this thread is that: Only people who already know what a linked list is can call themselves a developer. A developer will learn if she needs to what a linked list is. If tasked with something requiring one a developer will simply learn the theory behind linked lists and be able to execute it. In reality however, they probably won't because most day-to-day tasks don't.