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>I worked (full time) for thirty years in APL before starting my FoxPro career about eleven years ago.
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>APL'ers had two different contests -- "one-liners" where amazingly complicated problems could be solved in one line (and the winner used the fewest characters) and "broken-key problems", a special form of one-liners.
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>One of the unique features of APL was the ability to assign and reference a variable in the same statement; actually, to assign and reference as many as you'd like. Creating code described as "pornographic".
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>We described APL code as "self-encrypting".

Wow.. thirty years of APL!
Is it still around?
I wrote some during the mid 80's and loved it.
Then the PC's called and I never saw it again.