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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I get what you're trying to say now ๐Ÿ˜‰. Still, they're mostly used when doing algos, which in real world practical examples is almost never. We do all sorts of repetitive things, like sorting or user input blocks, but new algos is... something that you might do in NASA, CERN, Wall Street, not your every day programming job. Sure, you might optimize a thing or two here and there, but that's about it ๐Ÿคท.