Re: A demon of our own design

In article <13n62ne8kse8pcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Harold  <hskolnic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>A new book about financial derivatives, A Demon of Our Own Design, by 
>Richard  Bookstaber discusses an APL incident(pages 43- 47).  He 
>describes a problem that APL had difficulty in handling well - in the 
>last century.:)  The problem was "there was not enough memory to hold a 
>matrix of high enough dimensionality to solve the problem with an 
>acceptable level of precision."  Looping through the data was 
>inefficient due to the interpreting nature of APL.
>
>Since then, available memory has grown rapidly and I have heard of APL 
>compilers.  I am curious as to the reaction of experts on APL  - to the 
>book and the issues raised.

I have to remember to beat up on Richard about it.  The problem was bad
analysis, not the language it was implemented in.

Seth