[16s]

Very well said. There is no one perfect programming language, no one perfect algorithm and no one perfect data structure for all problems and constraints you will face as a CS practitioner.

Really, a CS education is just preparing you to pick the right solution for the problem/constraints at hand. For example, you can loop through a list. That approach works fine. However, when you begin to scale, you may find that look-ups against a tree-based data structure or perhaps a hash table are much more time efficient at the cost of more complexity, more space and more educated programmers.

[aegiso]

A self-reminder I use to stay humble: If X really is so perfect, I better start looking for a new job because I'm no longer required.

We need look no further than the existence of the programming profession to see that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.