Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: High-levelity Message-ID: <634@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 14:42:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.634 Posted: Sat Jan 12 14:42:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 05:06:11 EST References: <1242@bbncca.ARPA> <10@mit-athena.ARPA> <2678@dartvax.UUCP>, <276@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA Lines: 12 Summary: SAS is higher-level than APL or BASIC (frivolous article) > In Basic...I would > invert a matrix A using the statement: > 100 MAT A = INV (A) > How about APL (or the last APL I used, anyway)? > A gets domino A > Where "gets" is a left arrow and "domino" is quad-overstrike-divide-sign. > None of these silly MATs or needless function calls. How about SAS (if memory serves me correclty): A = A ** -1 ;