Agreed. Say he introduced 100 bits of notation, 3 good and 97 bad. The net result is that the world absorbed 3 good ideas, and the rest have vanished from memory. Not a bad track record. I hope to give the world three good ideas.
Besides notation, APL introduced some ideas about vector computing that have been adopted in languages like R and Python (NumPy).
Besides notation, APL introduced some ideas about vector computing that have been adopted in languages like R and Python (NumPy).