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"robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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[...]

> > It is clear that
> >
> >                            A*B
> >
> > is easier to read and understand than
> >
> >                     MATMUL(A,B)
> >
> > would you not agree?
>
> But a casual user would ask, does A*B mean term by term or matrix
product?
> If one, then how is the other distinguished?
>     A casual user would probably recognize MATMUL as
> being matrix multiplication, not term by term.
>

Quite.

Recently on the comp-FORTRAN newslist we had such disinformation from a
self-styled nasa bigbrain who claimed that epx(A) =exp(Int(0,t)A(s)ds). The
same bargain bigbrain lately poo-poohed C/C++'s inability to host a stiff
ODE solver when such C/C++ codes have been available within .gov for some
time now, without f2c, and gratis to .gov employees . Little wonder that
Fortran is priced as a Challenger + crew/decade. What gives?

--
Boom,
Gerry T.