Thank you for these explanations. I reflected on my experience. My intuitive reaction to APL is that all these special symbols aren’t necessary and APL would be

Thank you for these explanations. I reflected on my experience. My intuitive reaction to APL is that all these special symbols aren’t necessary and APL would be more approachable with some speaking identifiers instead. Then I remembered my experience with Perl. People used to say that all these special characters make Perl hard to learn. And I couldn’t understand what the problem was. Now I see my hypocrisy!