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Article #169Re: Types, arrays, generality, and notation (was: Fortran90 and Arrays)
From: Stephen P Spackman
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:17
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:17
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In article <ROCKWELL.92Apr12194446@socrates.umd.edu> rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) writes: |Stephen P Spackman: | J is just too notationally FLABBY to deal with anything outside of | its narrow floats-and-arrays outlook - which is why I say it is cut | from the same cloth as FORTRAN. | |Maybe. But what does this mean? It means 1960 has come and gone? It means that the language designer shouldn't be dictating what are appropriate data types to the users? It means, why are you quibbling with each other and not looking around to see what NEW territory there is to explore? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stephen p spackman Center for Information and Language Studies stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu University of Chicago ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!tira!stephen From: stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) Subject: Re: Types, arrays, generality, and notation (was: Fortran90 and Arrays) In-Reply-To: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu's message of Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:44:46 GMT Message-ID: <STEPHEN.92Apr13001713@estragon.uchicago.edu> Lines: 16 Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago CILS References: <ROCKWELL.92Mar21001252@socrates.umd.edu> <STEPHEN.92Apr9220641@estragon.uchicago.edu> <1992Apr10.093445.26931@newshost.lanl.gov> <STEPHEN.92Apr10055926@estragon.uchicago.edu> <ROCKWELL.92Apr10223545@socrates.umd.edu> <STEPHEN.92Apr11050533@estragon.uchicago.edu> <ROCKWELL.92Apr12194446@socrates.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:17:06 GMT