I'm a REXX advocate, but it is a terrible language for Mathematics. The lack of arrays is enough to take it off the table. C has a similar problem; it has arrays, but the are one dimensional, and array of pointers are not suitable alternatives to multi-dimensional arrays; try writing an efficient transpose routine. I haven't looked at the STL to see how C++ stacks up in that regard.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:19:51 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >Math, math, math but not about math. > Rexx's sore deficiency there is lack of elementary functions. But that's hard to do in combination with variable-precision arithmetic. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
