Re: Using a Database within Windows + Dyalog APL

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Gosi  <gosinn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 22, 7:59 pm, AAsk <AA2e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Excel is a dangerous tool, just like an inferior chisel." I assume
>> you mean inferior to APL.
>>
>> Think: The user base of Excel is measured in terms of millions and
>> that if APL in terms of hundreds.
>
>APL predates Excel and had the users that later turned to Excel.
>So obviously Excel had something (grid and easy view of simple data)
>that APL lacked.

Actually there was a spreadsheet (grid and easy view of data) written
in APL before 1979 (which was when I saw it).

Seth