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Re:Why do interviewers ask linked list questions? by nicbou on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:58PM (#26637119)
There's quite a bit of data wrangling happening both in the backend and in the frontend.
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Re:Why do interviewers ask linked list questions? by collyw on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:41PM (#26652878)
Rereading your comment, do you mean just using a hashmap / dictionary, or do you mean writing your own hashing functions? The first is invaluable, but I have never had the need for the second (pretty sure you could define your own hashing functions in Perl, but I never found the need).
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