i wouldn't say that lambda calculus or turing machines have ever been part of my programming toolkit (i do know what they are), and i wouldn't expect say a new

i wouldn't say that lambda calculus or turing machines have ever been part of my programming toolkit (i do know what they are), and i wouldn't expect say a new programming hire to know much at all about them. FSAs are a bit more useful, but you can get an awful lot of development work done without direct knowledge of them.