> APL just has a small handful of symbols with really simple definitions > Scheme actually has a ginormous dictionary by comparison Oh, and also, I should poi

> APL just has a small handful of symbols with really simple definitions > Scheme actually has a ginormous dictionary by comparison Oh, and also, I should point out that Scheme has no symbols to learn. Quite small compared to the 50 odd that APL has. The reason for this is that users already know all of the symbols in Scheme. "log" exists as a concept in people's brains already because it is a word and also the name for the function it describes. You know the word "log". You can start typing "log" and it will show up in auto-complete. ⍟ (circle with small star in it) doesn't exist in people's head and you can barely make out what it is without a special font and you cannot type it without a special input method. People do not know the word "⍟". It is an entirely new concept for something people understand perfectly well and all it does is reduce the length of a line by 2 characters.