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Yes, blackboard-simple is not the same as keyboard-simple. Unless the language is specifically for code-golfing, such design choices suggest the creators haven'

• nine_k 2y ago
  They likely wanted something out, and wanted something to write a number of papers about. Unifying the computer language syntax and the familiar CS theory syntax may be a shrewd product decision, if, again, producing papers and obtaining doctorates is the goal, while industry acceptance is a distant secondary consideration.
• g15jv2dp 2y ago
  Or... it's a conscious design choice that you happen to disagree with. Just because you can think of one disadvantage of the approach, doesn't mean that the creators are idiot who didn't think about what they were doing.
• mlochbaum 2y ago
  (I think we got off the rails a bit: the linked article looks to be ASCII-only! But I feel the need to defend myself...) This is a bit of a change-up from the usual "write-only language" complaint! But it does have the benefit of accuracy: yes, if you know the language, the time savings in writing APL are smaller than the savings in reading it. Both are faster, once you've spent a week or two with the keyboard, since even the slow method of typing a prefix character followed by a letter is faster than typing out a keyword in another language. Array languages are rarely "product"s. While I do offer it to others for free, I make the language I want to use, and having nice-to-read symbols for a one-time tooling cost is a nice convenience for me. Don't call me thoughtless for having different tradeoffs than you!