> Actually, the language "J" (http://www.jsoftware.com/) is the next level 
> up from APL, letting you write "adjectives" and "adverbs", making APL into 
> a more meta kind of language closer to Haskell than Excel. Plus it uses 
> ASCII, which I think is actually a drawback except from the practical POV.

Yeh I was about to say that J is similar to APL, but without needing all the 
special characters.  I did get into J a while back, here's a J program I 
posted in one of the other o-t ngs to display the mandelbrot fractal:

(64 
64$((+/((|((,((((0j1*i.64)+/(i.64))%16)-2j2))(+*:)^:(i.8)0))<2)))){'.,:;!+i#'

Cool eh? :-)

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