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From: bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: MATRIX BASIC -- HOW BIG IS THE MARKET?
Keywords: design, question, Basic
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Date: 9 Jan 91 23:24:11 GMT
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|> and all sorts of C and Fortran library packages. -John]

They're already there, and highly optimized, why not use them?  All you
need is an interpreter for a C or Fortran-like language that uses the same
calling convention as compiled C or Fortran, and use it to call the
packages.  Add type checking and automatically include the appropriate
array bounds to the packages to make things bulletproof.

bb
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