[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Dynamic array extensions

[denisgolovan]

> Horses for courses. I think the impressive thing about APL is that the
> necessary operations were worked out (and used for Blackboard
> demonstrations) /before/ it was converted into a computer language, and
> by and large weren't added to. However the functional nature of the
> language was vastly overrused, and students who thought they were being
> smart would on occasion find themselves with mainframe runtimes of
> /months/ because they'd created an enormous array instead of using a
> simple control structure.

Yes, sure. 
But things slowly change in compiler/interpreter world.
Now we have loop/streams fusion techniques and other devectorization tricks, so I think smart APL interpreter would be of real help here.
 
> Nod here to Vector Pascal as well. And as a bit of history, the first
> computer implementation of Iverson's notation was done at Stanford under
> the watchful eye of Niklaus Wirth.

Hm, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like computer scientist community was really small those days.

Vector Pascal is much closer to our current discussion though :)

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Regards,
Denis Golovan