Alan Perlis on APL: "What attracted me, then, to APL was a feeling that perhaps through APL one might begin to acquire some of the dimensions in programming th

Alan Perlis on APL: "What attracted me, then, to APL was a feeling that perhaps through APL one might begin to acquire some of the dimensions in programming that we revere in natural language — some of the pleasures of composition; of saying things elegantly; of being brief, poetic, artistic, that makes our natural languages so precious to us." http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm