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Re:Learning APL by rajandatta on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:53PM (#28093691)
The best way to think about this is that all of these variants exist:

APL uses custom glyphs

J uses symbols from an ASCII keyboard - its a big set of primitives

Q from Kx systems uses words.

The conceptual basis for the languages is very simple. As others have said - your experiences will guide where you feel most comfortable.

Re:Learning APL by rajandatta on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:58PM (#28093738)
Commenter here ... meant to say 'The conceptual basis for languages is very similar'.