"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."<p>Interesting discussion of why Dijkstra hated APL so much: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@jsoftware.com/msg00137.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@jsoftware.com/msg00137.html</a>