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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/11
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In article <7h9o21$9v4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:

> a new language does not help. On the contrary, switching to a
> new language often illuminates principles that are hard to
> understand in a language that does not support or is actively
> hostile to these principles.

Another good example of this is Lisp and recursion. After learning Lisp,
I was never afraid of recursion again.

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