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On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: I guess that I was lucky? At GSFC, I was in an entry level job ("Data Technician"), having EAM experience and some FORTRAN, being paid as a go-fer, but being expected to learn and do more and more stuff. Such as simple FORTRAN to draw graphs on Calcomp plotters. I had some calculations to do, and THE calculator (on a typewriter cart) was in use elsewhere. One of my senior cow-orkers (a programmer) spent about a minute showing me that you could do routine arithmetic in APL. So, it only took a few minutes before it was saving me time and effort. After I was using it for calculator work for a little while, he came back and showed me how to write simple programs, and got me access to some manuals. I was never GREAT, but I found it easy to learn new stuff in it. I had been fascinated with matrix algebra in high school, and was thrilled to see some of the things that APL could do. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com