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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
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Subject: Re: Anti-CLU... Anti-Strong-Typing...
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 09:07:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 09:07:42 1983
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> ... with lots of superflous conversions going on at runtime.
> PL/1 and APL are like this too.

APL has the basic types character and numeric AND vectors and arrays of
various sizes.  For vector operations APL checkes the shapes of the
arrays ("conformability") and will automatically convert scalars to
vectors.
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	Tom Teixeira,  Massachusetts Computer Corporation.  Westford MA
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