Actually, it's somewhat the opposite. The lisp curse refers to the ways in which lisp can easily be extended with nonstandard or bespoke features. Apl relies

Actually, it's somewhat the opposite. The lisp curse refers to the ways in which lisp can easily be extended with nonstandard or bespoke features. Apl relies much more heavily on primitives; they are so expressive and general that you often don't even need to add functions. This gives the code more universality (assuming you know the language, which I expect should be a given).