V. S. Ramachandran’s “Phantoms in the Brain” book had a blindsight patient, many years ago ( he’s a neuro-researcher ).

He handed her an envelope, & asked her to put it in a mailbox ( which I think he held, at some angle, in some semi-random location, before her ), and she did, automatically.

He said she was absolutely dead blind, but could probably drive, without hitting any obstacles, or do archery, iirc…

SHE couldn’t see, but something in her unconscious-mind could see.

He called that something “the zombie”.

Interesting book, iirc ( it’s been a looong time since I read that one ).

_ /\ _

The carbon-zinc ones never do, but the alkaline ones do, the ones I opened, anyways ( a few decades ago )

I’ve read that genetic-testing showed that in the poorest neighborhoods, it is over-50%,

and that the deliberately stopped doing the testing, because they didn’t want to be liable for any problems this information would be producing.

Obviously, when you trash people’s validity, & meaning, they become more sensation-seeking, & more careless.

Poverty is a manufactured on some populations condition.

I found Science magazine to be the best balance between pop & technical…

https://www.science.org/journal/science

for the specific domain that you’re interested-in, I suspect that a mixture of best-of-breed books & the actual live code of in-production projects, would be best?

While there used-to-be zillions of different magazines, that’s … kinda specific, and narrow, you know?

_ /\ _

It looks like you’re considering different programming-paradigms, and I’m asking you to consider having a toggleable set of modes, so something which needs ( for whatever reason ) to be in a particular paradigm, … can be in that paradigm.

Functional, imperative, whatever.

Make it like radiobuttons, from the user-perspective: modal, with a declarable project-default, and variances declared on a per-file basis.

THIS file needs to be THIS paradigm, e.g…

( functional overall, imperative for the tricky-to-make-fast/efficient bit, as 1 possible example: eradicate many bugs & put performance where it needs to be. )

just an idea from somebody whose been working on cracking what the proper minimal-set of maximally-orthogonal programming languages requires, for a decade or 2…

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

_ /\ _

Y’all say that like it’s a bad thing…

: P

_ /\ _