Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens

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From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:38

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Jim Giles:
   It seems silly to me to introduce automatic generality to arbitrary
   rank arrays or arbitrary data types when such generality ignores
   the big picture - which is that few algorithms are stable (or even
   possible) in such generality.

Yes, the generality is not automatic -- you must chose your algorithms
carefully.  I prefer to spend my time this way, as I find I get a
bigger payback from time spent in design than I do from time spent in
re-implementation.

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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