What is the correct result?

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(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.

When reading this, SQL popped up in my mind...

(03-19-2024 09:19 PM)johnb Wrote:  A few years later, they thought the same thing about SQL...

... and here we go :-)

Are there any more examples? Did BASIC or PROLOG raise similar hopes back in their time?