I know a few people who've taught APL to kids or other non-programmers and the most common remark is how much quicker they get it than students who've worked wi

I know a few people who've taught APL to kids or other non-programmers and the most common remark is how much quicker they get it than students who've worked with other languages. I don't know what the result of the experiment you describe would be but you're definitely biased by your experience. And as a counterpoint to your example, here's the code to multiply several numbers by two in both Python in APL: x = [1,2,3] [n*2 for n in x] 2 × 1 2 3 We have forums: APL Farm is the most consistently active. If you'd like to talk to real live APLers just hop in. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Chat_rooms_and_forums https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Chat_rooms_and_forums