Re: [stack] R

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Stevan Apter <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Nowak" <[email protected]>
> >
> > On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Stevan Apter wrote:
> >
> >> if that's intellectual curiosity, i am marie of roumania.
> >

My original post (sorry if sounded like I was trolling) was because
the R language looked to me like PostScript with several overloaded
operators for dealing specifically with arrays. I was wondering if
that is all that it took for a language to be considered an array
language.

>
> www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf
>
> still the best exposition of the central ideas of array programming.

Thanks for the link. I should emphasize that I am not in any way
trying to negate any of the benefits of array programming, but as a
language designer I want to know what characteristics a langauge
should have to be considered an array language.

Thanks again,
Christopher