I recently bought "APL an interactive approach" and read it. It seems that most of the good stuff from APL is already present in modern languages, and better wh

I recently bought "APL an interactive approach" and read it. It seems that most of the good stuff from APL is already present in modern languages, and better when it's lazy. The OO stuff in APL looks kind of crufty. Still it's a wonderful fascinating language. In the age of mature open-source it feels very old fashioned with the expensiveness of a decent implementation. Btw, this is a fantastic tv segment from days of yore "The Origins of APL - 1974": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w