Yeah, that's a fine answer. But they might just not know of the other way to do things. Like, in Java, for a long time I didn't know there was an output strea

Yeah, that's a fine answer. But they might just not know of the other way to do things. Like, in Java, for a long time I didn't know there was an output stream that you could write a string directly, so I was always getting the bytes to write it. I wouldn't call that a formative experience.