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Re:Tech layoffs keep stacking up by letitbeirie on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:46PM (#31954877)
You took it after they switched to Java, which abstracts away the mechanics of collections.

Linked lists were much more fundamental (and covered much earlier) when they were using C++.

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Re:Tech layoffs keep stacking up by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:31PM (#31955171)
Oof—I had no idea that was a thing. Especially at that age, I would have loved to learn C++, due to some misguided notions of what constitutes "real programming".
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