They can't be serious if they don't provide a cheat sheet - a page worth of notations for common algorithms demonstrating how to use the thing and how it's superior.
Here in the real world we don't have time to read a 800+ pages book on a subject promising to bring marginal productivity benefits. Me, I'd better read some fiction instead. It's so much better for your soul than any CS topic.
Most engineers I know would still argue that Merge Sort is a better solution and apparently Robert has had the same argumentative response even though he is an expert in the field. In the lecture he kindly says the following : “… Such people usually don’t program much and shouldn’t be recommending what practitioners do”.
Here in the real world we don't have time to read a 800+ pages book on a subject promising to bring marginal productivity benefits. Me, I'd better read some fiction instead. It's so much better for your soul than any CS topic.