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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 07:09:40 -0600
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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.

-tkc