'There is a surprising lack of APL-derived languages that use words to name things' - This isn't really surprising when you consider the history of APL, and wha

'There is a surprising lack of APL-derived languages that use words to name things' - This isn't really surprising when you consider the history of APL, and what it was designed for. Arguably you could say something like numpy is APL derived (or at least inspired), and that uses words. I think if you tried APL for a bit, you'd quickly get over the symbols (and even come to prefer them eventually).