Comment by beachy

APL prevented me from getting into software for many years.

Back in the 80s I was an mainframe engineer at IBM. One of our customers (a bank?) was heavily into APL, and occasionally I would fix one of their keyboards.

(Sidenote: these were beautiful keyboards, and their keys were individually repairable. Also pleased to share my first mastodon link! https://mastodon.social/@hanshuebner/109412183054578487)

Watching people programming on these looked so intense and intimidating that I decided software wasn't for me, and it took years to find out today actually it was.