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by tl 2009 days ago
> Glory days. Long before spreadsheets, IBM managers wrote their budgets in APL, and lucrative timesharing services supported users around the world.

Imagine a world where spreadsheets grew from being a living, easily accessible version of everything APL offered (which has been true for about two decades) into everything Q (and kdb+) supports including serving web content and cross-platform database queries.