APL is like if we assigned a number to every word in the English language. There are about 60,000 words: sixteen bits would do it. We could use base 64, so ever

APL is like if we assigned a number to every word in the English language. There are about 60,000 words: sixteen bits would do it. We could use base 64, so every word would be reduced to three characters. Wouldn't that be an improvement? </sarcasm>