For the record, if you do not know what a dict actually is, and how it works, it is impossible to use it effectively.
Although if your claim is then that most programmers do not care about being effective, that I would tend to agree with given the 64 gigs of ram my basic text editors need these days.
>For the record, if you do not know what a dict actually is, and how it works, it is impossible to use it effectively.
While I agree it's good to know how your collections work. "Efficient key-value store" may be enough to use it effectively 80% of the time for somebody dabbling in Python.
Sadly I've met enough people that call themselves programmers that didn't even have such a surface level understanding of it.
Although if your claim is then that most programmers do not care about being effective, that I would tend to agree with given the 64 gigs of ram my basic text editors need these days.