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From: darryl@ISM780.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Reading programs left-to-right.
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 07:44:00 EDT
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Nf-From: ISM780!darryl    Aug 12 07:44:00 1985


I suggest that, instead of everyone else learning a new programming
language, you might be interested in learning one of the many semetic
languages that read right to left.  After that, you'd probrably be most
comfortable coding in APL, which has guaranteed right to left evaluation.
In APL, i_i+1,0 rho a[i] _ i does just exactly what you expect it to.
Of course, nobody writes it that way in APL...  (Oh, interpret the "_"s
to be left arrows;  anyone remember when teletypes had left arrows and
not underscores?)

	    --Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
	    ...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl
	    The views expressed above are my opinions only.