As one who took APL as an "introduction to programming" course in college: APL practically encouraged unreadable implementations. Students would literally and f

As one who took APL as an "introduction to programming" course in college: APL practically encouraged unreadable implementations. Students would literally and frequently challenge others with "what does this program do?" with the intent of eliciting "I have no idea, it's unreadable." Forth and Lisp were odd, like a native English speaker learning Russian or Korean. APL is like writing a novel directly into encrypted form.