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Subject: Re: Any easy/build-in construct to extract submatrices from larger
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:54:49 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 25/06/2012 08:32, Nasser M. Abbasi a �crit :

>> I've been learning Mathematica, and I find functional programming
>> really powerful vs imperative programming, but it needs much more
>> time getting used to.
> 
> Right. Now talk about readability... Ada is for long-lived programs, and
> places readability over writability.

There is an old idea that resource consuming constructs should look
syntactically heavier than more efficient ones (when at same abstraction
level). Declarative languages frequently (always?) defeat this principle,
which results in poor coding practice.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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