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I remember some version of BASIC from the early 80's. You could create real multi-denominational arrays including sparse ones with any starting index(s) you wan
by Gibbon1 6y ago
I remember some version of BASIC from the early 80's. You could create real multi-denominational arrays including sparse ones with any starting index(s) you wanted.
Matrix operations were first class.
- hilbert42 6y agoI curious, can you remember which ones?
- Gibbon1 6y agoI think it was a SDS Basic or a variant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_BASIC#MAT_commands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_BASIC#MAT_commands
- hilbert42 6y agoOK, thanks. I've not used that. The problem I had was that I learned Fortran before coming across BASIC, so converting Fortran programs was often a problem when features where missing.