APL, ML and Pascal too. There is a story that Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, was passing a terminal at which a Fortran programmer had just typed: I =

APL, ML and Pascal too. There is a story that Ken Iverson, the inventor of APL, was passing a terminal at which a Fortran programmer had just typed: I = I+1 Ken paused for a moment, muttered “no it doesn’t”, and passed on.