数据结构真的没用吗？

最近跟一个人聊天，聊了几句，就感觉没啥意思了，他的意思是：数据结构和算法没啥用，仅仅笔试面试才有用，工作中完全用不到。

我还能说啥呢？最近看Redis源码，随便甩一段出来看看：

/* Add a new node to the list, to tail, containing the specified 'value'
 * pointer as value.
 *
 * On error, NULL is returned and no operation is performed (i.e. the
 * list remains unaltered).
 * On success the 'list' pointer you pass to the function is returned. */
list *listAddNodeTail(list *list, void *value)
{
    listNode *node;
 
    if ((node = zmalloc(sizeof(*node))) == NULL)
        return NULL;
    node->value = value;
    if (list->len == 0) {
        list->head = list->tail = node;
        node->prev = node->next = NULL;
    } else {
        node->prev = list->tail;
        node->next = NULL;
        list->tail->next = node;
        list->tail = node;
    }
    list->len++;
    return list;
}
 
list *listInsertNode(list *list, listNode *old_node, void *value, int after) {
    listNode *node;
 
    if ((node = zmalloc(sizeof(*node))) == NULL)
        return NULL;
    node->value = value;
    if (after) {
        node->prev = old_node;
        node->next = old_node->next;
        if (list->tail == old_node) {
            list->tail = node;
        }
    } else {
        node->next = old_node;
        node->prev = old_node->prev;
        if (list->head == old_node) {
            list->head = node;
        }
    }
    if (node->prev != NULL) {
        node->prev->next = node;
    }
    if (node->next != NULL) {
        node->next->prev = node;
    }
    list->len++;
    return list;
}
 
/* Remove the specified node from the specified list.
 * It's up to the caller to free the private value of the node.
 *
 * This function can't fail. */
void listDelNode(list *list, listNode *node)
{
    if (node->prev)
        node->prev->next = node->next;
    else
        list->head = node->next;
    if (node->next)
        node->next->prev = node->prev;
    else
        list->tail = node->prev;
    if (list->free) list->free(node->value);
    zfree(node);
    list->len--;
}
 
/* Returns a list iterator 'iter'. After the initialization every
 * call to listNext() will return the next element of the list.
 *
 * This function can't fail. */
listIter *listGetIterator(list *list, int direction)
{
    listIter *iter;
 
    if ((iter = zmalloc(sizeof(*iter))) == NULL) return NULL;
    if (direction == AL_START_HEAD)
        iter->next = list->head;
    else
        iter->next = list->tail;
    iter->direction = direction;
    return iter;
}

不重要吗？呵呵！

不多说。