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From: eedelman@rock.helsinki.no-sp�mm.fi (Erik Edelmann)
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/07
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 19:58:18 -0700, bv wrote:
>What a slaughter of Fortran, showing every symptom of design by ignorant
>and incompetent committee. What happened, where they too busy with
>themselves to bother and learn from ADA?? If they did, they'd see
>something along these lines:
>
>	function normalize(v: in vector) return vector is
>	vni: float;
>	begin
>	  vni := 1./norm(v)
>	  return (v(x)*vni, v(y)*vni, v(z)*vni);
>	end normalize;
>
>--	somewhere in your code   
>	u,v: vector;
>		.
>		.
>		.
>	u := normalize(v);

Perhaps I'm just as stoopid as the Fortran comittee, but I really don't
see what is so great about that code.  What if you want to normalize a
vector with 10 elements instead of 3, for example?


	Erik