Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside -- you might consider its successor and superset, *J* ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ). Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Christensen wrote:Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux?Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for that matter, Ada, if you're writing mission-critical/safety-critical systems If you're really interested in programming languages: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/