It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

APL is called an “array language,” meaning it can handle a collection of variables of the same type all together, rather than requiring a programmer to specify every single variable individually.

The APL formulation of a large-scale scientific problem can specify the solution precisely, while allowing the system much freedom in producing computed results. The testing and debugging stages of ...