> There's a reason that APL never gained a foothold
APL was widespread in operations research in the 80s, and since the early 90s is usually found in and around finance, even though it isn't really common anymore.
Part of it is a mindset thing; People used to consider longer employment periods, both from the company's perspective and from the employee's perspective. Although APL is extremely useful when you use it properly, it is definitely not a "programmer-is-a-replaceable-cog" language that Java strives to be and the most firms now assume.
APL was widespread in operations research in the 80s, and since the early 90s is usually found in and around finance, even though it isn't really common anymore.
Part of it is a mindset thing; People used to consider longer employment periods, both from the company's perspective and from the employee's perspective. Although APL is extremely useful when you use it properly, it is definitely not a "programmer-is-a-replaceable-cog" language that Java strives to be and the most firms now assume.