From:    onefang <onefang_devuan@???>

Date:    Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:19:53 +1000

> APL is very readable, if you are doing a lot of matrix type
> mathematics. Otherwise it's even worse than Perl one liners, since
> most of it's characters are not part of the ASCII character set.

Certainly very different from familiar languages. The history is
interesting. IBM was central in early development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

With many languages, development focused on the computing environment.
Appropriate for system programming. When developing APL, Iverson
focussed on the mathematics. You can see that in his book
_A_Programming_Language_.

The special character set can be a distraction from the concepts. If
interested in mathematical programming, I suggest learing J and
keeping APL for reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

Yes, J is available for Linux and other contemporary systems.

Regards,                       ... P.

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