What is the correct result?

[KeithB]

(03-19-2024 09:19 PM)johnb Wrote:  Yeah, at one time, IBM thought that APL was the language to save businessmen from reliance upon programmers! Hard to imagine how they arrived at that, if you've seen any nontrivial APL!! But they actually had short film clips showing how a businessperson could sit down to a live terminal session (because timesharing was futuristic and sexy!) and get answers with just a few keystrokes.

The BigNerdRanch guy says that this is why NextStep was so popular with Business Analysts/programmers: The GUI was so easy, it let you focus on the problem at hand, rather than getting a button to run a certain piece of code.