At least Edsger Dijkstra thought that APL had been "carried through to
perfection"! "language of the future" for our programming techniques!
creates a new generation of coders"!
Oh, wait. Here's the context:
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new
generation of coding bums." - Edsger Dijksta
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html