Re: Oberon language standard

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:03:22 +0200

Ludwig Maetzke wrote:
>
> Hello Douglas,
>
> > (Anyone remeber or use APL (A Programming Language) by Iverson? Wonderful
> > syntax where one could write a whole program on one line. It has also been
> > called a write only language :) )
> I liked it very much, especially the matrix operations and the DB2
> interface. Unfortunately, these APL features seem nearly impossible to
> imitate in another language
>

I never used it, but the matrix stuff and others could be realized
with the OberonX extensions see:
     http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/misc/Chapter7.pdf

Bernhard
Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 07:03:22 UTC

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