Jon Paris wrote:

The thing that most sticks in my mind from when I played with it many
years ago was that even experts in the language seemed to have
problems remembering what their code actually did three months after
they wrote it.

Evidently they didn't put enough lightbulbs in it. (If you have even a passing familiarity with the APL character set, you probably got that one; if not, it probably went over your head.)

--
JHHL

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