Even when this paper was published, Backus' comments toward APL did it a massive disservice. Modern descendants of the language have freed it entirely from "ex

Even when this paper was published, Backus' comments toward APL did it a massive disservice. Modern descendants of the language have freed it entirely from "expression/statement" splits, and the collection of operators has grown richer. More than any other family, APLs today represent the most successful realization of function-level programming as yearned for in this paper.