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If you numerical programming folk like Fortran because of its
facilities for handling multi-dimensional arrays and builtin complex
numbers, how come you don't use APL? APL has been around a good long time,
exists for quite a few machines, and makes Fortran's mathematical
facilities look like a joke. I'm curious as to whether the use of
Fortran rather than APL is a matter of tradition (together with the
fact that until recently APL has used a special character set - this, of
course, wouldn't have been terribly difficult to change if there had
been sufficient interest), or whether numerical programmers have
seriously considered it and rejected it. What say you?

Bill