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- From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Date: 29 Aug 1992 06:46:11 GMT
- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- : In article <BtpAIn.EE5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- :
- : Handling the syntax problem alone would make for great improvement,
- : but I see nothing in this direction, and have asked for software to do
- : this single job.
- :
- : And many have asked you for a decent specification of what you want.
- : If you can't tell us what you want, there is not much chance of us
- : coding it is there? So come on Herman, play the game, tell us
- : what you want so we can finally be rid of this old chestnut.
-
- I have no idea what Mr Rubin really wants but here are a couple of
- easy ones of the top of my head:
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- result1, result2 <- function_that_returns_two_values (NOT a structured type);
- E.g:
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- P, D, Q <- singular_value_decomposition(A);
-
- Array index notation:
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- for all i <= j: a(i,j) <- sum over (k) ( b(i,k)*c(j,N,k) )
-
- (Thank god for Connection Machines)
-
- I won't bore you with the obvious complex numbers, exponentiation, etc.
-
- : bevan
-
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