My take is that, yes, people don't like APL, and are biased against it. It's a case of not understanding/knowing what they don't know. I was in the same boat, w

My take is that, yes, people don't like APL, and are biased against it. It's a case of not understanding/knowing what they don't know. I was in the same boat, which is why my discovery of APL was so interesting. APL on the GPU isn't really a "big deal" to most people either, because they think they could do the same thing with a library. I'm taking it a step further than that. The biggest reason, I think, that people are slightly (but not totally) more receptive to the work I'm doing in my own research field is because I'm almost literally doing the impossible. And that's sort of the barrier to entry. Until you demonstrate that you can do the impossible, they don't take you seriously. In my case, it's producing a compiler that people have said was practically impossible to do, and doing it with APL, in such a way that it becomes evident that APL is a key contributing factor to my ability to solve the problem. Basically, what I've done is create a compiler that is natively expressed in a format/style that is as compatible with the GPU as C or C++ is with the CPU. There is no one else who has done this, or even, to my knowledge, made the attempt. And unfortunately, it's that madness of the attempt that makes the whole thing interesting. It's easier for me to convince people (on some level), because if you ask them to imagine how they would do this with their own language, they can't. With almost every other domain, people can convince themselves that they could do the same thing more productively in their own language, even if evidence of people trying and failing suggests otherwise. Another dimension to this problem is that APL is usually presented over domains which seem "obviously suited" to APL, and that makes people think of it as a niche domain specific language. Working in the field of compilers is an obvious not-APL-friendly domain, and yet the results are just as compelling, and thus, more interesting to people.