Consider A Programming Language (APL) as a counter-example. APL was developed by Ken Iverson for use as a computer interpretable mathematical symbology.

Amidst all of this, two interpreted programming languages saw themselves being used the most: BASIC and APL, with the latter being IBM’s programming language of choice for its mainframes.

For example, APL evaluates math right to left. That is, ... Before FORTRAN came out in 1956 and revolutionized programming, people were essentially working directly in machine code.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- West Valley-based E/Step Software Inc. will host its annual APL computer programming language for high school students starting next month.

YAKIMA, Wash. — A West Valley-based software company is conducting its 15th annual workshop on the APL programming language for high school students in October.