Re: [Jchat] why did Dijkstra dislike APL so much?

[James C Field]

Let's not forget that one of the reasons that Ken Iverson wrote the book 
(A Programming Language)  was  to regularise and codify the  description 
of  algorithms.
GOTO is fundamental to the operation of any stored program computer. He 
HAD to include it in APL if only for completeness.

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