IIRC about pointers:

I may have had a similar epiphany ~ early-on:
"I have to work rilly rilly hard to see how this er 'works'; I think this means - I won't ever get very good at it. Ergo: I am not a programmer. Oh well."

(or something vaguely like that)

And yes too, I'd surmise that, if you assembled lots of those questions (of your cohorts: the ones They ask their intreviewees) - you might find a rather compact assessment of the gotcha!s (or even basic badness? in some cases) of the Popular languages.

(This along the lines, in the science forum re Cosmology: whether you can? examine a subset of questions for, "answerability of the questions asked to date" and extrapolate some idea of the fruitfulness (?) of further investigation along similar lines..)

There is no possible 'algorithm' for Original thinking..
(and ya don't even need G\ufffddel for arriving at That)


A.