I think we tend to lack a deep knowledge of those aspects of programming that bore us. I love learning, and I still do a lot of it by myself. But there's an in

I think we tend to lack a deep knowledge of those aspects of programming that bore us. I love learning, and I still do a lot of it by myself. But there's an infinite amount of cool shit out there to learn, and a finite amount of time. That's why--despite having written several commercial software products, and having worked on systems deployed for years at a stretch--I can't even code a bubble sort or a quicksort, in any language, without resorting to google. ☆blush☆ The implied deficiency doesn't offend me; I don't really want to sit through two semesters of algorithms classes in C or Java, but at this point I definitely wouldn't mind having done so fifteen years ago.