It's important, but I don't think it's crucial. I've seen a couple programmers that are really good that do not have good memories. They always have apis and cheat sheets open in their browsers they are constantly referencing, along with frequent searches on google.

I'm quite relieved to hear it. Constantly referencing is what I do to get around my inability to remember things too!

Yeah, memory is important. It's easy to hack, though. The techniques are called mnemonics. Learn and practice a bunch of these, pick a few that work well for you. Eventually they will be very natural to you.

Working on it!

Yes, but you don't have a poor memory, you have an untrained memory.

Nobody has an innately poor memory unless they've received egregious brain damage.

True. To clarify, I was just simplifying by calling my memory poor. I just have an attention deficit. So technically, I'm never committing to memory in the first place!