Original sentence: " David Given." Edsger Dijkstra, 1968." Michael S."APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection."APL, in which you can write a program to simulate shuffling a deck of cards and then dealing them out to several players in four characters, none of which appear on a standard keyboard."This way of doing business was so productive that it spread like wildfire.(on a part of Richard Stallman's personal webpage entitled 'Doggerel').A:  Ken Iverson.APL is fun.APL, a song to the tune of "Row, row, row your boat".Always equals 1.And I basically hate hieroglyphs, so I won’t use APL.And make the buggers run.Before his life is done;.By the time the practical people found out what had happened; APL was so important a part of how IBM ran its business that it could not possibly be uprooted.Got that Java stuff down cold.It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.I’ve surfed for Perls, found what Fortran’s for,.Joke in the APL community, heard sometime after Iverson joined I.Montalbano 1982 (see A Personal History of APL).Now, I’ve used a SUN under Unix, so I’ve seen what C can hold.Q:  If functions modify their data, and if operators modify their functions, then what modifies operators.Rho is dimension; rho rho, rank.Rho, rho, rho of X.Sharp Associates in 1980:.The following amusing rhyme from Stan Kelly-Bootle's Devil's DP Dictionary/The Computer Contradictionary has been circulated as part of the fortune program in numerous Unix installations.The song "The Eternal Flame", lyrics by Bob Kanefsky has something to say on many programming languages, one stanza including APL:.The wild-eyed researchers had produced a moneymaker.There are three things a man must do.Though the chance that I’d write COBOL code.Write two lines in APL,.is a SNOBOL’s chance in Hell