How do we tell truths that might hurt? (Edsger W.Dijkstra)

"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."

Interesting discussion of why Dijkstra hated APL so much: http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@jsoftware.com/msg00137.html