> It has been said that non-programmers used to catch on to APL quite quickly back in the day. This is still true today. I used to run a program for kids where

> It has been said that non-programmers used to catch on to APL quite quickly back in the day. This is still true today. I used to run a program for kids where they coded with robots. We used C for a while and we spent the whole time teaching C, never really getting to cool robot activities. Then we switched to Matlab, and it was like night and day. They took to Matlab so quickly, and I think you are right that the array nature of the language is the main reason. Others include the ubiquitous table datatype, and a REPL interface.