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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <Bxq7y0.IJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <mwm.2n6z@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <Bxr8vG.IpI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:34:50 GMT
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- In article <Bxr8vG.IpI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > There are many macro processors out which at least handle some
- > problems with macro name first, but apart from compilers, I know of none
- > which would allow someone to write (Bob Silverman's notation)
-
- > c = a ** b
-
- > and have it translated into
-
- > c = doubmult(a,b).
-
- The macro language used in Jeffrey Kingston's text formatting package "LOUT"
- can do the trick, though it seems to be pretty tightly coupled to the text
- package. I don't know his current net address, but the Lout documentation
- gives:
-
- Jeffrey H. Kingston
- Basser Department of Computer Science
- University of Sydney 2006
- Australia
-
- Or you could try mailing postmaster@basser.{edu,oz}.au...
- --
- Peter da Silva / 77487-5012 USA / +1 713 274 5180
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