What a terrible article. That line of APL is sheer beauty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4) - being ignora

What a terrible article. That line of APL is sheer beauty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4) - being ignorant of a language's syntax and not willing to invest the time to learn it is no reason to claim it is 'impenetrable'. I'm sure sheet music, replete with quavers and semi-breves and treble clefs is impenetrable the first time you see it, but once learned is far superior to playNote(double hertz, double duration). Worse, it goes against his point just a paragraph earlier. The whole advantage of Q/K/J/Haskell style languages is that once skilled in them, the code is much (as in 10-20 times) denser than the equivalent OO-style code, and the entire flow can be grok'ed with ease. There is much less danger of over-engineering in those languages.