I took a class that used prolog in college. It was so confusing at first. Then one day, I was doing an assignment with definite clause grammar, and everything clicked. It wasn’t just my understanding of prolog that benefitted, either. Suddenly I also internalized how regular expressions work.

I remember it distinctly because it was such a good, almost euphoric feeling that seemed to drop randomly on top of me.

When people say that learning a new, different language will give you benefits that carry over to the rest of your abilities, I remember that moment.

There is definitely a lot to be said for stretching your programming brain in new ways.