QNial7

There's also Nial: https://github.com/danlm/qnial7 which is (pardon the oversimplification) APL but with words instead of symbols.

I guess you're referring to this: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

As a nearby comment observes, this leads to s-expressions. The connection between APL syntax and s-expressions is surprisingly close. Start with prefix notation and right-associativity, add grouping parens, and you have something that looks like lisp. The Nial language is an outright fusion of the two that's fun and enlightening to play with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

re: Nial -still alive - QNIAL latest updates were in 2019 see https://github.com/danlm/qnial7

Finance uses it because it's great for sorting out medium-big time oriented data. The IQ test aspect of it is probably considered a bonus in some shops. There are non-terse APLs out there; the most obvious one floating around is Nial[1]. Culturally though, once you've figure out how to read and write in the compressed ascii runes, it's kind of hard to go back to the other way. J is actually denser because of the hooks, forks[2], rank and full tacit aspect of things. Personally whenever I've composed an algorithm in J I feel like I really understand it in a way that pretty much nothing else gives me with all the extra typing. [1] https://github.com/danlm/qnial7 [2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html

This looks rather nice and in some ways resembles Nial (https://github.com/danlm/QNial7) in that its a array language that is more accessible to programmers not familiar with APL/K/Q etc However the gist is over 8 years old and there doesnt seem to be a public repository for the language available. Edit: add NIal repo link

People who are interested in a more readable APL should have a look at Nial: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7 It is a fairly standard APL which inherently uses english-like notation instead of symbols.

Nial (and its interpreter QNial) is strangely unheard-of. It's an intruiging APL-like that uses English words and a simple, general syntax that permits nested parentheses, allowing lisp-like code. It extends APL to multidimensional arrays a la Numpy (which it well predates - 1981!), and throws in some interesting and exotic ideas for good measure such as arrays of point-free functions as a first-class structure. It's a lot of fun to do Project Euler type math problems in, and captures the essential spirit of APL/J/K etc but without the obfuscated syntax. isprime is op n {not ((n = 1) or (0 in (n mod (rest count (floor (sqrt n))))))} https://github.com/danlm/QNial7 https://tangentstorm.github.io/nial/intro.ndf.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial

If you would prefer to use keywords instead of symbols, Nial is a good option: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Perhaps Nial would be of interest: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

This is worth a look. Some of the old A+ stuff is as well. I'm told by reliable sources that an awful lot of Art's code looked like this over the years; even the more recent K7 stuff. Art's gonna do his thing. Opinions differ as to whether or not it is a generally good idea, but you can't argue with the results, and at this point I find stuff like the J source code to be fairly readable, even if it is really different from what most people are used to. Basically, you're just expressing C as APL primitives. If you understand APL primitives, it's not so bad. If you want to see APL expressed as C primitives, something like Nial is pretty good: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Or like Q'Nial: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Check out Q'Nial for something like what you are asking for here. It is an array language, but uses more verbose function names: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Q'Nial (https://github.com/danlm/QNial7), although it seems pretty much an abandoned language. Searching for it on github yields like, 3 repos. http://www.nial.com/ is the official website, which also seems abandoned.