APL was widely used by actuaries before PCs and spreadsheet software were available. The environment I coded APL in from 1979 to 1984 was IBM's VSPC (virtual storage personal computing). Math geeks found it very intuitive to think about manipulating matrices as objects. The basic matrix algorithmic techniques involved flipping matrices upside down or sideways, operating on them and flipping them back again, generating matrices of 0's and 1's representing a condition on the matrix and selecting out the winners, and transposing (reordering the dimensions) of a multidimensional matrix (I believe you could have up to 16 dimensions), and reshaping it into another matrix. These types of operations were primitives. It was also easy to write generalized code because there were primitives for the shape of an object, the last or first element, etc. Good code was quite readable. By the way, we had special APL keyboards.
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just port zfs to debian and everything is hunky-dory
how long will it take for vista to "mature" if there continue to be so many reasons not to upgrade ?
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Get someone to show you how to use google.com while you're at it.
gnome sucks
everyone knows that
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Google "emotional intelligence", you need some.
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APL was widely used by actuaries before PCs and spreadsheet software were available. The environment I coded APL in from 1979 to 1984 was IBM's VSPC (virtual storage personal computing). Math geeks found it very intuitive to think about manipulating matrices as objects. The basic matrix algorithmic techniques involved flipping matrices upside down or sideways, operating on them and flipping them back again, generating matrices of 0's and 1's representing a condition on the matrix and selecting out the winners, and transposing (reordering the dimensions) of a multidimensional matrix (I believe you could have up to 16 dimensions), and reshaping it into another matrix. These types of operations were primitives. It was also easy to write generalized code because there were primitives for the shape of an object, the last or first element, etc. Good code was quite readable. By the way, we had special APL keyboards.
all the requests to port 80 on my router log are from @home
i wonder who is doing more to slow down the net
does the os/2 workplace shell and rexx fit into this discussion?
I hate to ask, but I must...
What will happen to Clippit??