A great figure in 20th-Century philosophy, Isaiah Berlin, wrote that No doctrine of originality and power in human affairs appears to me ever to have got into the common consciousness of man unless it was to some extent exaggerated.
This language is, of course, too exalted for the issue at hand; but traditional BRD coding idioms do need to be discarded/rooted out; and enthusiasts like you will help to get the job done. A very long time ago I wrote a routine to invert symmetric matrices in LISP. It worked, limpingly; and it taught me that LISP is not really a good vehicle for non-trivial matrix algebra. My point here is of course that your excesses, if any, will teach you things; they will be self-correcting. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
