Re: Using a Database within Windows + Dyalog APL

"AAsk" <AA2e72E@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> You seem to have incurred a hell of an expense for just one
> application each in Excel & Access.
>

you couldn't know, but I got Office '97 for free (by way of a promotion
action 
from a computer magazine) and still use it
[...]

>
> Earlier you mentioned 01/03/1900. The default base date in Excel
> (1900) failed to recognise 1900 as a leap year. However, you do have
> the option of switching the base date to 1904. Is this really a much
> bigger catastrophy that APL returning 1 as the answer for 0 divided by
> zero?
>

oh, definitely it is. I had e.g. Causeway to turn upside down, not
assuming 
Adrian had made a mistake (and he didn't !!), but what I did wrong. When
asking 
him, he said he just followed MS, and so made a gesture of courtesy to
that 
everything dictating software company. But in the meantime it had cost me
a week 
to find out. In that time (80ies, 90ies and still, be it less&less) in 
particular life-insurance companies, pensionfunds, notary-offices and a
lot had 
to deal with personal dates in three centuries - it really was an annoying

deficit.