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From: john@ghostwheel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Languages for numerical programming (was Fortran etc.)
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Date: 10 Dec 90 21:51:49 GMT
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In article <4473@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>For numerical stuff, "design or develop in APL, recode in Fortran" makes
>a lot of sense.
>

As I said originally, I don't know anything about APL so I will accept 
your opinion on APL versus Fortran.  However, I do doubt that developing in
one language and recoding into another is a good idea as a rule.  It might
work for small applications, but often our algorithm development codes
are themselves huge.

John