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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Ada versus PL/I (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?)
Date: 1996/09/06
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Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <96090415425634@psavax.pwfl.com> "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM> writes:

   > I'll bet some Apl programmers think that PL/I _SUCKS_ because the
   > commands are so bleeding long in comparison to what they're used
   > to?

    No, real APL programmers complain because primitive operations
like outer products and incomplete beta functions aren't provided. ;-)

    I've actually thought about creating an Ada package whch provides
the "missing" functionality.  The outer products are the pain.  To
implement them by providing generics is possible, but you have to have
a generic formal type which has a first discriminant of number of
dimensions, and a second of scalar element type...

     The field where APL is the best programming language available is
limited.  But in that domain, nothing else comes close.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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