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by fasquoika 1773 days ago
>It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc, were all broken out in little calculative statements based on the array of hours.

Yeah I guess APL is kind of 'spreadsheets as a Real Programming Language', isn't it?