Which is totally orthogonal to the original statement, and my reflection to it, which was on one hand statig that seemingly array languages tend to be letter soupy, for which I replied that a selection bias is at play, as array languges are used widely, most notably Matlab is used widely which is not a letter soup. It is simply not regurgulated on the site as it does not seem so hardcore.

Nevertheless you are right, array langueges have been around earlier, for example Matlab itself dates back to the 1970s.

I do not understand the awe some are giving them in the comments, they are an easy to understand paradigm, which is very well suited for certain types of problems. Some having overly terse syntax is a thing, but I do not feel that only geniuses can comprehend array programming, anyone who did learn some university level physics or signal processing has the tools in their belt.