The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer'sPerspective::Redux

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Reply to Bruno,

> Well, this conversation was centering on extraordinary abilities that
> made a human be able to do computer-like calculations (processing
> large amounts of input instantly, calculating primes, etc.).
> That is savantism,

Unless I'm totally missing something (an I did check out wikipedia) savantism 
is to narrow a term for what I'm thinking of.

> not autism. Autism is a wide variety or mental and
> behavioral disorders (which savantism is a part of), most of them are
> not very pleasant or even programming-friendly. You should check
> wikipedia and the web, because autism is kinda of a fuzzy term, and it
> took me a while to start understanding it, since it seems some people
> use the term with slightly different (and possibly incorrect)
> meanings.
[...]
> I also
> don't think autism in general is a "type of intellect associated with
> CS
> style tasks", although some of it's sub-disorders may be (which
> then?).

OK I'll grant that autism is to wide a term for what I was thinking of (and 
even so might still not encompass what I'm thinking of).

I think you actually used the correct term at the top, "extra-ordinary abilities" 
but only if taken literally as not normal. I may be measuring a cloud with 
a micrometer here but I still think it would be interesting to see how an 
abnormal mind would approach some of these problems.