Re: Using a Database within Windows + Dyalog APL

"Gosi" <gosinn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> So I guess we are loosing quite a lot of beginners to the Excel/Access
> crowd and they never or very seldom think that it is worth their while
> to come over to us.

I remember from the sixties an article by Richard Nabavi on VisiCalc in
his
domestic magazine MicroAPL (might be by on of his colleagues).
I wish I could re-read it!
That was a real picture of what became of VisicCalc compared to APL
(remember
the VC-guy who took his Casio and showed that the addition was ok? ...) --
apart
from the 1st of March 1900, &c &c
Excel is a dangerous tool, just like an inferior chisel.