Poetic. I am a big fan of "functional programming languages", including Lisp to an extent. That said, I appreciate the teachings they can impart - abstract str

Poetic. I am a big fan of "functional programming languages", including Lisp to an extent. That said, I appreciate the teachings they can impart - abstract structures, design sense / "design patterns", and ways of thinking etc. - more than any sort of dogma associated with "their way". Although, to be fair, I did go through my own period of foolishness in ... say, "venerating" this particular "methodology". Your comment did prompt thought of Pratchett's book "Interesting Times". Specifically, passages like "... It had come as a revelation to Lord Hong when he looked at the problem the Ankh-Morpork way and realized that it might just possibly be better to give the job of Auspicious Dog-maker to some peasant with a fair idea about metal and explosive earths than to some clerk who'd got the highest marks in an examination to find the best poem about iron. In Ankh-Morpork, people did things." The tricky bit in everything, and the difference between the true expert and not quite is often found in forms of "executive function" ... Knowing what to apply and when ... when to change up strategies, what the value is in some methodology and how to bring that into what you are doing ... all these sorts of things. I always know when I'm at more of an "advanced intermediate" level (a sort of "first black belt" level) when I know too many ways to go about doing something but have no idea which is likely to produce solid progress in a relatively time-efficient way. So, bit of a digression off of your comment, but stimulating from my perspective and hopefully of some use to anyone who might read this.