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If this is how things are going to go, I guess I should break out the APL keyboard and get going.

This? http://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_rc...

Looks like they didn't have the right unicode font for L

Quad and squad. The joys of a character-set derived by the character overstriking your original development teletype could produce.

This requires a lot more typing than APL. OTOH, code seems less write-only.

I don't know about write-only. I've sat behind some APLers and they seem to know exactly what's going on. To me it would be write only much like if you made me write a letter in Spanish. I would be looking stuff up and probably forget what about it a couple months later.

I wrote a lot of APL code for one semester. Trust me: mine was write-only to a point I wouldn't be able to figure out in the afternoon the code I wrote in the morning...

In time, it's possible to become fluent and recognize the idioms and larger patterns that form the language, but it seems to be a painful process.

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