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Subject: Re: Why FORTRAN - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 03:23:53 EDT
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ism780!darryl    Jun 18 19:20:00 1984

APL:  Exponentiation.  Large body of built in functions.  Great for
handling multidimensional matricies.  A good implementation does not
have to take much overhead for interpretation.

	    --Darryl Richman
	    ...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl