APL and C were my first languages, but I can't read most of those, it's been too long. Merrill Lynch's mortgage operation was an IBM APL2 shop with a few dozen

APL and C were my first languages, but I can't read most of those, it's been too long. Merrill Lynch's mortgage operation was an IBM APL2 shop with a few dozen programmers, along with people doing non-mortgage stuff. http://www.thocp.net/software/languages/apl.htm http://www.thocp.net/software/languages/apl.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL... I remember that people who came from the other dialects, Sharp and STSC, had different ways of doing e.g. nested arrays and calling out to the OS which made their code hard to read.