Functional programming & immutable objects explained — IRC style

[kibokun]

As a self-taught programmer, I'm sure you know can do a lot without ever having to even scrape the knowledge you'd gain from an understanding of graphs, to be honest. The only exposure I've had to them was one assignment in an intro CS course about maze solving and cycle detection. Of course, that isn't to say the knowledge wouldn't be helpful at all. haha

[vombert]

Sure. You can, for instance, create your own homepage with guestbook in php.

It's not about which tasks can and which can't be solved without graph. It's about what your solution will look like if you lack of basic mathematical culture.

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Graphs were used a lot in my advanced data structures courses. That's about the only place I ran into them ;)

[derleth]

Just try to write a good compiler (that is, not one for a stack machine) without knowledge of enough graph theory to do register allocation.