An article[1] claims Wes McKinney was inspired by APL while working on pandas; some of the pandas verbs such as "ravel" come from APL. Also, the <- instead of

An article[1] claims Wes McKinney was inspired by APL while working on pandas; some of the pandas verbs such as "ravel" come from APL. Also, the <- instead of = in R comes from APL, although that's relatively minor. :) [1] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/ https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...