What's wrong with APL?
Philip S. Abrams · 1975
Throughout history, every time a new idea has come along there have been many people quick to criticize it. As often as not, such criticism has come from detractors of the idea, and has been motivated by its threat to older, more established beliefs. The Biblical prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Copernicus, Galileo, Pasteur, Marx, Darwin, Stravinsky, and countless others, all experienced resistance to their ideas for essentially emotional rather than intellectual reasons.