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Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)

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From: peter da silva
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:34
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In article <Bxr8vG.IpI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> There are many macro processors out which at least handle some
> problems with macro name first, but apart from compilers, I know of none
> which would allow someone to write (Bob Silverman's notation) 

> 	c = a ** b

> and have it translated into 

> 	c = doubmult(a,b).

The macro language used in Jeffrey Kingston's text formatting package "LOUT"
can do the trick, though it seems to be pretty tightly coupled to the text
package. I don't know his current net address, but the Lout documentation
gives:

	Jeffrey H. Kingston
	Basser Department of Computer Science
	University of Sydney 2006
	Australia

Or you could try mailing postmaster@basser.{edu,oz}.au...
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Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
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