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- From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: computer algebra systems and apl
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- just passing this along from the sci.math.symbolic group
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- Subject: The Real Meaning of Efficiency? (Re: Serious Programming, etc.)
- From: BALDEN, orwell@reg.triumf.ca
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:53 PST
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- >To me, it seems that Maple is certainly a VHL programming system in
- >terms of the facilities available, but that it does not quite have a
- >VHL programming language as linguistic glue to weld together its
- different
- >facilities -- that its lineage is basically from what Backus calls
- >"Von Neumann" (ALGOL/FORTRAN/Pascal) languages. (In a somewhat
- >similar vein, the IMSL scientific subroutine library offers individual
- >VHL numerical problem-solving facilities, but you still have to use
- >"low-level" FORTRAN to weld together various IMSL routines in a
- >stand-alone program.) In contrast SMP/Mathematica's (spiritual,
- >at least) programming lineage comes more from APL.
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- >Ron Balden
- >
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