Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!hsdndev!spdcc!iecc!compilers-sender From: khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: MATRIX BASIC -- HOW BIG IS THE MARKET? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 19:21:01 GMT References: <11651@j.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us Reply-To: khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 22 Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us In-Reply-To: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu's message of 4 Jan 91 19:49:36 GMT In article <11651@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes: > I am intending to expand the current matrix operation interface I've > designed into a full scale language on PC. Here is what I am considering: such features were quite common on the mainframe BASICs of yesteryear (e.g. an MBASIC on the JPL UNIVAC, back in '77). I don't recall these dialects taking over the world; though my HP 71b does support matrix operations. As noted by Corbett, the current ANSI standard for BASIC includes such features. -- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043 [So can you get any kind of Basic on a Sun? -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.