"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
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Edsger W. Dijkstra (May 1982), "How do we tell truths that might hurt?", SIGPLAN Notice 17 (5): pp. 13–15.
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