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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
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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 ;