[tluyben2]

I am a plumber too, and a good one, but I notice (if you forgo the time pressure: my fast solutions are always plumbing) that the language I use matters in my thinking and that is probably how I learnt them. When I have the time, I think solutions up (mostly in my head or on 'paper'(scratch buffer)) in lisp/scheme, haskell/idris or apl/k. The result, when I consider it elegant, is usually very nice after translating to another language.

For Scheme I think my thinking came from working through SICP many years ago while the other languages in the list force you basically to first think about a solution before you start typing.

I am not saying, obviously, people cannot think up these things straight in rust, python, c# etc, however, for me personally, it works much better if I first work it out in one of the others; it is way too tempting to grab for my plumbing wrench otherwise.