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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/07
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tmoran@bix.com wrote:

> >In those days, I was as big a fan of APL for the kind of work I was doing
> >as I am of Ada today.
> There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents ... ;)

   What?  Do you have something against APL?  For certain jobs it is
still the best language around.  I still use it to prototype
algorithms--even when the final implementation is in Ada.  A few years
ago I spent a few days debugging and tuning an algorithm in APL, then
spent several months documenting, implementing, and tuning in Ada.  I
probably could have spent twice as long doing it all in Ada.  There was
a huge amount of algorithmic design required--the problem involved
solving transportation problems on large sparse matrices.  I ended up
demonstrating that the problem could be solved in milliseconds instead
of hours.

-- 

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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