That fits my experience. In the 1980s as a teenager I programmed in BASIC. I read a magazine article about generating mazes. I couldn't wrap my head around t

That fits my experience. In the 1980s as a teenager I programmed in BASIC. I read a magazine article about generating mazes. I couldn't wrap my head around the algorithm. Later I learned Forth. After that, the algorithm made sense, because I finally had a language in my head suitable for recursion.