Yes, interesting. APL was meant to be used for teaching programming - with it's exceptional clarity (sic). Java took the place... J engine is claimed to not hav

Yes, interesting. APL was meant to be used for teaching programming - with it's exceptional clarity (sic). Java took the place... J engine is claimed to not have memory leaks - that's from very early versions and being written in C. It's true that it could be hard to think about the problems "vectorally", but still - I agree, the comment sounds ridiculous.