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From: monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Do I really need a loop
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Date: 17 May 91 18:20:34 GMT
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In article <9105171506.AA23991@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> liebtag@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com ("David Liebtag") writes:
>Pat Monardo,
>
>   Any argument that concludes that ANY language has no value on the
>basis of how difficult it is to multiply the values in the rows
>of a matrix by the values in a vector is patently absurd.
>
true. i should have said has no value to me. i also believe
that the rank operator is a wonderful invention, up there in
the top ten computer inventions of all time.