From: Paul Stickney <pstickne@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T14:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet

> APL, for example, probably would never have taken off if Kenneth
> Iverson had invented it in a university instead of at IBM.

APL took off like the Spuce Goose.
[http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html]