Of course ATL is a homage to Ken Iverson's APL. His language treated multidimensional matrices up to 64 dimensions as single variables to be manipulated in sing

Of course ATL is a homage to Ken Iverson's APL. His language treated multidimensional matrices up to 64 dimensions as single variables to be manipulated in single steps, thus creating a language that performed many steps in a short space and time. He was a farm-bred Canadian, first in his town to ever go to college, whose thinking was brilliant!