Do you believe that refactoring a large APL codebase would be inherently easier than something like, a large legacy C++ codebase?
What is the relative complexity of comparing, say 1000 lines of APL to 10K lines of C++?
I remember reading an interview between Arthur Whitney and Bryan Cantrill where they mentioned something about recognizing idioms in the dense code much more easily in K than in something like C because it took so many less characters. Do you see any sort of refactoring advantage to that?
I've also recently seen work on the Co-dfns compiler in APL where the author mentioned that APL allowed him to easily refactor compared to traditional codebase, and looking at the github library, there is something like 3 million edited lines over the span of several years in a codebase this is a few thousand lines of code. I find this fascinating because my hope is to eventually start a small software business and I think reducing complexity in the number one priority in order to make it sustainable in the small (the goal isn't to have a team of 50 developers).
Thoughts?