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nmm1@cam.ac.uk writes:

> Well, they do.  However, few computer scientists do, because they
> rarely understand arrays.  The rot started with Wirth, who produced
> an utterly insane specification for them in Pascal, whereupon
> Pascal was rejected by the scientific programming community.
> The insanity spread into C, and we now have TWO generations of
> computer scientists without a clue about arrays, which is why
> C++'s (and even Boost's) are incredibly complicated but not actually
> very powerful.  Fortran, not surprisingly, is VASTLY better.

Perhaps I'll come to deeply regret this, but...

Ok, what's wrong with them that Fortran gets better?

I'm asking because I might be able to add what you want to my Zed language -
I did the informal docs on array (static sized) and matrix (dynamically
allocated) types last week.

Note: abstractions/formalisms and I don't get along, but a friend a couple
blocks away is good at that stuff. We both know Fortran, C, Pascal,...,
but not at the language-lawyer level.

-- 
Chris Gray

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Hardware for linked lists Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 16:29 -0500
  Re: Hardware for linked lists Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-04 22:41 +0100
    Re: Hardware for linked lists "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-04 20:15 -0800
      Re: Hardware for linked lists "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-05 19:53 -0800
        Re: Hardware for linked lists Andrew Reilly <areilly---@bigpond.net.au> - 2012-03-06 11:38 +0000
          Re: Hardware for linked lists nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-06 12:16 +0000
        Re: Hardware for linked lists Bakul Shah <usenet@bitblocks.com> - 2012-03-06 23:24 -0800
          Re: Hardware for linked lists Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-07 09:08 +0100
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-03-06 13:25 +0100
      Re: Hardware for linked lists Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-06 17:11 +0100
  Re: Hardware for linked lists nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-04 21:51 +0000
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 17:16 -0500
      Re: Hardware for linked lists nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-04 23:15 +0000
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Chris Gray <cg@GraySage.com> - 2012-03-04 17:04 -0700
      Re: Hardware for linked lists nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-05 09:01 +0000
        Re: Hardware for linked lists Chris Gray <cg@GraySage.com> - 2012-03-05 14:07 -0700
    Re: Hardware for linked lists George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2012-03-05 00:57 -0500
  Re: Hardware for linked lists cjt <cheljuba@prodigy.net> - 2012-03-04 19:09 -0600
  Re: Hardware for linked lists MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-04 18:24 -0800
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 22:26 -0500
  Re: Hardware for linked lists Andrew Reilly <areilly---@bigpond.net.au> - 2012-03-05 03:59 +0000
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2012-03-04 23:38 -0500
      Re: Hardware for linked lists Jim Haynes <jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu> - 2012-03-05 11:08 -0600
  Re: Hardware for linked lists jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-03-05 22:21 +0000
    Re: Hardware for linked lists Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-05 15:14 -0800
      Re: Hardware for linked lists John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2012-03-06 01:44 +0000
        Re: Hardware for linked lists Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-06 00:41 -0800
  Re: Hardware for linked lists torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2012-03-06 11:19 +0100
    Re: Hardware for linked lists nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-06 11:07 +0000

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