[magicalhippo]

Thanks for the detailed responses, highly appreciated.

I taught myself programming as a kid using QBasic, and quickly moved on to Turbo Pascal and assembly, so clearly my programming career was doomed from the start[1].

For one I do like to keep in mind how it will actually be executed. The times I've not done that it has usually come back to bite me. But that perhaps hampers me a bit when reading very abstract work.

That said I like going outside my comfortable box, as I often find useful things even though they might not be directly applicable to what I normally do. Like you say, often changing the point of view can help alot, something that can often be done in a general way.

Anyway, looking forward to the rest of the article series and the talk.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#How_do_we_t...