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Re:Programming language notation is a barrier to entry by dodobirdlord on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:48PM (#24656483)
There’s a small group of people (financial analysts, mostly) who use APL derived languages, are hugely productive and make tons of money, and have no interest in changing the language they use. Not every tool is for every purpose and not every language should try to appeal to all users.
Re:Programming language notation is a barrier to entry by Wezl on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:11PM (#24657143)
Although many of the APL derived languages changed their syntax by removing the fancy symbols. I'm not disagreeing, though: some people like them, some don't, and that's why people use j, k, and APL.