>>98 But if you apply for a job in programming today, there's a 80%+ chance the person interviewing you has never heard of a pointer, thinks 'Algorithm' is the capital city of Greece and XOR is the name of that new alien movie. But they WILL babble Design Patterns BS, and rather than solve the fizzbuzz problem, they'll have you draw some UML2K enterprise pictures to show you're a good programmer.
I have met people like that and still can not fathom how they can function in a software project.