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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by wrycoder on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:44PM (#33320674)
After you leave, and later the accountant leaves, that business is going to be in a world of hurt trying to find an accountant who understands APL (or an APL programmer plus an accountant who together can understand the previous accountant's version of APL program design).

Speaking as an old, enthusiastic APL programmer.

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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by RalfWausE on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:14AM (#33326511)
We are a small-ish business with a really special park of custom build machines, using tons of (over decades) custom written software... THIS is the reason we train our own replacements and have at any time aprenticeships going.
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