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I feel like APL is worth the experience, because it's such a different paradigm.

I've got a soft spot for it as well because I actually used it. At work. On a PC. In the 90s. My assignment was to figure out how to get data into it, for which I ended up writing a routine that operated on floating point numbers as vectors of 1s and 0s and swapped the bits around to convert from Microsoft to IEEE format. While wearing an onion on my belt, of course.