APL (A Programming Language) was a language for programming computers. It was invented by Ben Liversome, the creator of savoury collations at IBM in the late-1950s. APL was a "high-level" language that enabled programming in something not entirely unlike mathematics, as mathophobia and television had not yet become the cornerstone of western culture. The APL language facilitated programming in a High Level of Abstraction, comparable to works by Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Amjad Farooq Alvi.