I don't know APL and I'm not currently smart enough for Haskell. My current infatuation for learning is with Scala. When I first started programming in the mid-80's, I was hacking on a COBOL stock-control system on VMS; the braille display I was using at the time didn't do terminal emulation, and this software built screens by outputting VT52 escape sequences. Although I learnt to decode them so that I could check my screens for alignment and spacing etc. I discovered that I could log an interactive session using SET HOST/LOG; I wrote a TECO program to translate these sessions back into a 2-dimensional layout that was much easier to read on my braille display. So, yes I generally like dense languages.
> "I learnt to decode them so that I could check my screens for alignment and spacing etc."
That's just amazing, but I guess it makes a lot of sense... since your display is not 2d-based in the same way as standard screens are and you can read the code itself (i.e. the display is consistent). I'd upvote you a thousand times just for how cool it is to workaround difficulties in so leet way :)
Of course it also reminds me of... I don't see code, just blondes, brunettes, redheads...
I used to work in a braille lab during my masters. Braille lab would generate braille books and reading material depending on blind students' request.
For regular text, we used to do a simple text conversion and print it using a special printer called braille embosser. We used a software called duxbury for the purpose. http://www.duxburysystems.com/dbt.asp
For math(non single line), braille uses something called, nemeth code. So we used code almost all the math functions/equations manually in nemeth code.
For graphics, we used to emboss 2d picture on a special paper. The process involved, scan the picture -> convert it into a grayscale -> remove all the noise -> take a print out -> use a tactile embosser to put it on a swell touch paper (http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=19327&top=15...) Typically, a chart or graph or waveforms were key in understanding the material.
During the process I interacted with few blind cs engineers who were graduated and were working for Microsoft. At that time(10yrs ago), Microsoft was the best blind friendly company. They used the visual studio for daily hacking.
