the user must k n o w two syntactically different languages for table manipulations. Naturally, interfaces with spreadsheets are available too. Education Reports from Russia O l e g P. L u k s h a 249020 Obninsk-1, K a l u g a Region P.O. Box 157 USSR E-maih ankon@sms .ccas .msk. su Conclusion A user in the USSR, deciding to use A P L at his o w n risk, feels himself as a white crow in the environment of C, Pascal, Basic, Fortran or Clipper adherents in the I B M P C base. He has additional problems with interpreter and system documentation, with the hardware of his P C X T or (rarely) A T (low processor productivity, keyboard, monitor, printer), and a lack of his chiefs support. APL-oriented sol,ware businesses are making their first steps in the USSR, and better-informed customers find A P L a sufficiently good choice for those applications. The first APL-oriented programming bureaus in Moscow, Leningrad, Obninsk and Sverdlovsk have arisen. But most conventional programming project managers are unlikely to rush into an undertaking with APL. Over the last 15 years only four special books on A P L
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