I had to use APL once back in the 1970's, because I needed the graphics capabilities of an IBM 5100. I managed, but it wasn't a pleasant experience and I've fe

I had to use APL once back in the 1970's, because I needed the graphics capabilities of an IBM 5100. I managed, but it wasn't a pleasant experience and I've felt no compulsion to repeat it. I admit it was kind of cool to be able to operate on whole arrays at a time, but nowadays I can do that with Python's numpy.