Learning APL
Here's what I don't get about APL. Why is it so important that everything be a single symbol? Why not give the symbols more descriptive names and let people use those names, instead of being forced to work with only the symbols? Heck, it wouldn't be much work to make a text editor that lets you switch back and forth.<p>APL seems to be designed for people who place an extremely, extremely high weight on code golf-level terseness. IMHO, terseness isn't the be-all, end-all of comprehensibility. I'd rather just use the words "max" and "min" than learn redundant special symbols for the same that save me a couple characters.