I understand TFA is scoped to calculus, but the parent post scoped their usage of Julia to "anything with linear algebra involved", so I would say in that case you should teach languages that are practical for linear algebra. I threw Matlab under the bus because it's generally slow (although there are ways to optimize it a bit more) and expensive, but I would teach matlab or julia before apl or bqn. Also bqn is a very new language, it's not ready to be used for classroom teaching purposes.
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I understand TFA is scoped to calculus, but the parent post scoped their usage of Julia to "anything with linear algebra involved", so I would say in that case you should teach languages that are practical for linear algebra. I threw Matlab under the bus because it's generally slow (although there are ways to optimize it a bit more) and expensive, but I would teach matlab or julia before apl or bqn. Also bqn is a very new language, it's not ready to be used for classroom teaching purposes.