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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:15:54 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.pl1 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)

>> The only language I know of that offers matrix multiply and
>> not element-by-element multiply is BASIC.

I used to use it in the HP TSB2000 systems around 1975.

I believe it traced back to the original Dartmouth versions.

I believe Stanford BASIC also had them, but maybe not in 
the Microsoft decendants.

-- glen