Probably not. I've heard of it, never looked too in depth. As mentioned I've become a fan of Scheme. The definitive text for learning it is probably SICP, in

Probably not. I've heard of it, never looked too in depth. As mentioned I've become a fan of Scheme. The definitive text for learning it is probably SICP, in which Sussman and Ableson call programming a form of magic - calling out certain incantations, knowing their meaning, use, and producing data manipulation from them. I find this accurate, but as an English speaker, I think I just prefer the Latin Vulgate versions, and not the runespeak of the forgotten gods. I guess maybe I was a bit harsh to say there is no use case. Perhaps there is, for someone with a deeper cognitive and memorization pool than I. For me, though, interpreting such an incantation would be the equivalent of breaking down each operation into it's C-like forms. If it were broken down for me on the screen, I could back-reference each step, and view each incantation within the framework of the larger piece. Mentally interpreting the above would require me to do the same, but with each step stored in my own mental stack memory allocation, which would quickly overflow and crash. Perhaps not, as mentioned I never tried APL, but I doubt I have the capacity to keep it all straight.