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it's not that easy to read apl either.

• silentbicycle 16y ago
  Really? It's like reading Chinese, but if it only had about fifty kanji and a perfectly regular grammar. I'll grant you that it's pretty intimidating when you start, though.
  • sunkencity 16y ago
    Apl looks pretty tough, though I would love to learn it. I know how to read persian/farsi, which I studied one course in at the university, I did not find it hard to learn to read that at all. Arabic is a little bit harder because there's more guesswork involved, but I don't know arabic. It's not the script, it's the way it's encoded imho, very few wovels are written down.
    • silentbicycle 16y ago
      If you're interested in APL, I'd suggest checking out J (http://jsoftware.com/ http://jsoftware.com/), a modern and free (though not open source) dialect, which only uses ascii. _J for C Programmers_ is pretty good. K, another APL dialect, is also quite amazing, but less free than J. (It's most recent version is called Q.) I don't know Farsi or Arabic, though. I studied Spanish and German in college, but majored in history rather than linguistics.
      • silentbicycle 16y ago
        (There's a conspiracy to make cool programming languages hard to google.)