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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Fortran Myths & Disinformation Wanted
Date: 1999/02/13
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Robert I. Eachus wrote in message ...
|If you
|don't care about maintenance, use APL which is even terser than
|Fortran.

And I use Prolog:

g(X,A,Y) :- Y is 1-A*X*X.
f(A,X,Y) :- g(2*X,A,B), g(X/2,A,C), Y is sin(B)-cos(C).

Terse enough for you?

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Nick Roberts    "The Prophylactic Didactic"
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&IknowtheXposting'sgonnaREALLYannoysomeppl:-)