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just passing this along  from the sci.math.symbolic group

Subject: The Real Meaning of Efficiency?  (Re: Serious Programming, etc.)
From: BALDEN, orwell@reg.triumf.ca
Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:53 PST

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>To me, it seems that Maple is certainly a VHL programming system in
>terms of the facilities available, but that it does not quite have a
>VHL programming language as linguistic glue to weld together its
different
>facilities -- that its lineage is basically from what Backus calls
>"Von Neumann" (ALGOL/FORTRAN/Pascal) languages.   (In a somewhat
>similar vein, the IMSL scientific subroutine library offers individual
>VHL numerical problem-solving facilities, but you still have to use
>"low-level" FORTRAN to weld together various IMSL routines in a
>stand-alone program.)  In contrast SMP/Mathematica's (spiritual,
>at least) programming lineage comes more from APL.

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>Ron Balden
>
