This announcement is for all of us who crunch numbers for a living, in apl or out of it.
I wrote Hot Footer in 2004 and have been using almost daily since then. I was sick and tired of playing with the paper tapes generated by tape calculators and decided a virtual tape (from which I could copy and paste) was needed. Now after almost twenty years, I've released it under the GNU Public License. https://sourceforge.net/projects/hot-footer/ For those born after the computer revolution, a tape calculator is a desktop mechanical appliance that printed a log of your calculations to a roll of paper tape. Mine had an electric motor so that having entered a number all I did was hit (tapping didn't show enough strength) the plus key. My Grandfather's had a twelve inch long lever that one pulled for each entry. w
