It's also worth noting that (ostensibly) the first complete microcomputer system (keyboard, printer, storage) was the MCM/70, using an 8008 implementing APL (not BASIC!).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 I'll say it again--a programmer who thinks in APL is very different from one who thinks in BASIC, Fortran, C, Pascal, etc. So of course, an APL program would look unintelligible to a non-APL programmer. --Chuck
