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On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:41:07AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote: > > a) You can *already* use vectors as scalars in Perl; > > That's not what RFC 82 is proposing. Who cares? This already works... > > b) What we are discussing is Perl, not Mathematica, J, PDL, and so > > forth. These languages have a very narrow niche. > > That's because few such languages provide strong general purpose programming > features as well. They are either limited maths-oriented languages (like > Mathematica) or add-ons to general purpose languages that aren't fully > integrated (Python/NumPy; Perl/PDL; C++/Blitz++). > > Many Perl users operate on lists of data. Requiring explicit loops every > time a programmer wants to operate on a list is asking the programmer to fit > in with how a computer thinks. That's not right. Well, this is your opinion agains mine... ;-) IlyaThread Previous | Thread Next