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From: kirchner@uklirb.UUCP (Reinhard Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: What should be in a Progr.-Language ( was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division )
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Date: 7 Jul 89 07:16:43 GMT
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Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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From article <1387@l.cc.purdue.edu>, by cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin):
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> What languages, other than Lisp and some similar ones, have the idea that
> an operation or function can return a string of values?  What languages allow
> the user to introduce addition operator symbols?  A few allow additional types.

There are ( not widely spread because of marketing deficiencies ) languages
which allow function results of arbitrary type and also the introduction of
own operators. These are

Pascal-SC and Fortran-SC

both are developed by mathmaticians who wanted to write their formulae
as they are in the textbooks ( no devectorization !! ). Both are extensions
of the underlying language. Both ( even Fortran-SC ! ) have dynamic arrays etc.

R. Kirchner
Univ. of Kaiserslautern
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