What I meant was that much of what I learned with language N was applicable to language N+1. Some of these new programming models don't seem as if they build o

What I meant was that much of what I learned with language N was applicable to language N+1. Some of these new programming models don't seem as if they build on concepts that are familiar to me. Maybe I'm overstating this, but I get the sense that we are approaching some sort of discontinuity where the developers who can take these new, non-procedural, declarative, loosely typed, implicitly parallel systems and make them dance and sing will be light years ahead of the last generation and their pithy procedural languages.