Ontogeny is the development of the individual, and the word might be applied to the process of developing an understanding of computer languages and their uses.

Philogeny is the development of the phyla, of species, and the word might be applied to the evolution of computer languages from the late 1940's to the present.

A famous maxim of biology is "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." Do you think this maxim does (or should) apply to the way you learn a computer language?