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On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:39:58 AM UTC+1, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> That is a start. But not enough by any means. All functions should be
> vectorized. Even user defined ones.
> 

Good examples to illustrate what other mathematical languages offer and what people doing calculations may be / are missing daily with Ada. 

Let's hope for some changes in this respect in the next Ada standard.


YC