[KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9]

Ah, APL. I remember a network synthesis EE course in the 70s where we had an assignment to implement matrix exponentiation. I had just finished a matrix algebra class and learned APL in the process, so my implementation was 2 lines of APL. Those where the days...

[bombcar]

How is it to read and write? It always looked to me like something that made Perl look verbose and clear.

[bear8642]

> How is it to read and write?

Fairly straight-forward once you've learnt the character set.

See here for details: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Typing_glyphs

[xelxebar]

You should come back. APL has considerably modernized in the intervening 50 years, and with data parallelism gaining ever more market share, the timing is perhaps ripe...