You can try J instead, http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/ As Wikipedia puts it [0]: it is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and

You can try J instead, http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/ As Wikipedia puts it [0]: it is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and FL function-level languages created by John Backus. To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set, resorting to the use of the dot and colon as inflectionsto form short words similar to digraphs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)