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wow - the first couple of paragraphs make it seem like brainfck! I love the part about using . for multi word variables because in a past version of a previous language _ was used for assignment! And thus the . can not be used for methods and instead they use $. holy crap. Yet somehow I am still strangely intrigued in a "this is as close to APL as I am going to get with out a magic keyboard" sort of way.

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If you really want the APL experience, try J (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm)

And j seems simple and logical in comparison to this

when I was looking into apl-esque paradigms the coolest thing I stumbled upon was a language called nialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial - very clean and really good use of syntax! I am going to check out J for sure though - thanks.

Most younger R programmers use _ for multiword names. Using . is generally not recommended as it is more commonly used to identify generic methods in the S3 object system.

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