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From: bv <bvoh@sdynamix.com>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/10
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Richard Maine wrote:
> 
> Yes, by the way, the committee certainly looked at ADA.  And it shows in
> quite a few places.

Surely, you're joking Mr."Feinman"? It takes a lot more than just
*looking* at ADA! Anyhow, in case the counter example in ADA baffled you
here's how the same fcn might look in the F9X that could have been:

	vector function normalize(v)
	external vector
	vector u,v
        real norm

        vni = 1/norm(v)
	do i=1,len(v)
	   u(i) = v(i)*vni
	enddo
        return u
        end

**      somewhere in your code  (sans interfaces & modules) 
        vector u,v, normalize
                .
                .
                .
        u = normalize(v)


Too bad for the missed chance when so much could have been done with but
a little extra tasking on the solitary assignments of the "return" and
"external".

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Dr.B.Voh
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