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I claim that this knowledge is useless and degrading performance of your programs.
oh really?
well maybe i can speak Korean; however; that knowledge has never affected my programs - this is because i've never used it when writing a program. i could easily do the same thing with recursion, now couldn't i?
the difference between you and me is that when i sit down to read/maintain some source code written by someone long gone, i can understand it.
you sit there scratching your head trying to make sense of concepts you never bothered learning because you thought they were "useless"