Re: one-liner for characater replacement

James Giles wrote:
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And I left out whole-array operations. Are they simple enough?
As I mentioned before, I probably left out a whole lot of important
stuff.

I'm not a language designer by any stretch but I can't imagine designing a simple, prototyping language w/o the feature. In my mind, other than free form source, the largest contribution of F90/95.

I'm also curious about the earlier proscription on ALLOCATABLE--unless you're intending transparent allocation/assignment a la Matlab for a prototyping, simple language. To me, the removal of fixed memory requirements is mandatory for simplicity in writing/prototyping (albeit w/ a lack of performance unless somewhat careful, but this is prototyping, right?)

That said, and while it's some interest, I'm curious why OP asked for that as a target since earlier emphasis seemed to be on large corporate clients.

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