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by fxj 935 days ago
The inventor of APL, Ken Iverson, also made the language J which is very much influenced by APL but does not use the special characters of APL. Think of it as ASCII-APL. It is a very nice language to program in and they have a decent user community. It is open source and is incredibly fast and looks at the first glance as cryptic as APL.

https://www.jsoftware.com

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To be clear, Unicode fully supports APL, even if ASCII does not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#Monad...