From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1083749098 15174 134.91.1.34 (5 May 2004 09:24:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:24:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:268 Date: 2004-05-05T09:24:58+00:00 List-Id: Xenos wrote: : : "Marius Amado Alves" wrote in message : news:mailman.68.1083695056.313.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... :> used. Well, this argument is simply false. I my 20+ years of programming :> languages "array" is clearly the term mostly used. "Vector" is just an :> STLism and Java fad. There is additional experience exposed in the :> : : Oh is it? You never heard of the language APL or did any DSP programming? APL: A Programming Language, or Array Programming Language. A vector in APL is a 1d array of fixed rank and shape. Likewise a matrix is an array of rank 2. If I'm not mistaken, arrays in APL cannot be lengthened or shrunk, even by selective assignment, so the length of each axis is fixed. (If you want an array of different shape, you make a new one from the old one.) The "vectors" in question can have a changing number of components along their only axis. -- Georg