Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python programming Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <98df529b-afe3-4f96-92ff-ff6e936d3dda@googlegroups.com> <531812e0$0$2923$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1394117546 14883 64.122.56.22 (6 Mar 2014 14:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:52:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:67940 On 2014-03-06, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-03-06 06:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:19:56 -0800, Beowulf wrote: >> >> > Once you master one language it is easy to understand other. >> >> Depends on the languages. Learning Forth doesn't make it easier to >> learn Perl. Learning Pascal doesn't make Smalltalk easier. > > And despite having a couple dozen languages worth of (varying levels > of) experience under my belt, Prolog still feels to me like > programming by epiphany. Back when I was in school, Lisp and Prolog were the hardest to grok. I eventually "got" Lisp (well, I actually "got" Scheme, and I think I could now "get" Lisp if I tried). Prolog is definitely the odd one of the dozen or two languages I've learned -- and I even wrote a small expert system in Prolog as a project for a software engineering class. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I think my career at is ruined! gmail.com