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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: High-levelity
Message-ID: <276@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:30:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 12:30:05 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: APL is higher-level than BASIC (frivolous article)

> 
> In Basic...I would
> invert a matrix A using the statement:
> 
> 100 MAT A = INV (A)
> 
> What could be more high-level?

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.

Frivolously,
Mark Brader
one-time APList