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Robin Mattern, Marketing Manager for The Computer Company's APL Software Products, who coordinated the software development for BIG.APL, agreed with Mr. Kusanagi, adding that he expected the largest market for BIG.APL to be traveling professionals: "BIG.APL provides an ideal means for scheduling appointments, storing and recalling addresses, telephone numbers, and flight connections, writing and send ing letters, and recording and tracking expenses. BIG.APL connects to a standard telephone for placing calls directly or with the auto-dial modem and can be used to receive phone messages or data from another system (acting as a computer terminal). APL has some rather bizarre symbols, many of which are missing in common ASCII notation, and they largely replace the English-like command sets we have all grown to know and love in Basic, Pascal, and Logo.
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