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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Larger matrices
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:29:01 +0200
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amado.alves@gmail.com a �crit :
>>> And Ada got in the way: slicing restricted to one-dimensional arrays!
>> Compared to other languages that have no slicing at all?
> 
> There are languages better than Ada at array indexing, including
> slicing. If there aren't, there should be!
> 
AFAIK, Fortran90 has very sophisticated slicing of arrays.
The only thing I heard about it, is that it was so complicated to define 
and use that it was a major reason why there are so few Fortran90 
compilers...

Language design is about balancing features, usefulness, and 
implementability.
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