You'll notice I'm not suggesting we stop teaching them. But what you describe are specialised applications; my point is that where linked lists were once somet

You'll notice I'm not suggesting we stop teaching them. But what you describe are specialised applications; my point is that where linked lists were once something that every programmer, large and small, could reliably expect to have to write repeatedly, they're now something that are only directly relevant to, say, library maintainers.