Not all of us got (cough any) CS degrees though, and while technically the information is all out there for me to find, I wouldn't necessarily have a reason to look, or on those rare occasions where my sysadmin/DBA projects do throw up a problem that one of these algorithms/structures are suited for - I wouldn't know _to_ look, or even how.
That's possibly one of the better arguments for doing a CS degree actually, at least for me. But 20 years ago when I might have cared, CS was always advertised as "you'll learn data structures and algorithms" and that's it. ( 20 yr old me: "I know loops and recursion, linked lists, some basic trees and oh look this "perl" thing has hashes, meh I'll be fine" )
If they'd listed out the sort of descriptions I've seen here.. well, I might have had a very different life!
