Collection-oriented languages
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Collection-oriented languages supply high-level data abstractions and operations on them and provide implicit parallelism. Collection-oriented languages include FORTRAN 90, APL, SETL, CM-LISP, and Paralation LISP. Collection-oriented languages have aggregate data structures and the operations that manipulate them as a whole as primitives. These languages support sets, sequences, arrays, vectors, and lists. Collection-oriented operations include unary apply-to-each; nonunary apply-to-each; rearranging elements; and nested collections and operators. There are four classes of collection orderings: unordered, the foremost collection type in SETL; sequence-ordered, the basic data structure of LISP-like languages; grid-ordered, the basic data structure of APL-like languages; and key-ordered, the most general. The set of collection operations is either aggregate or apply-to-each.
Publication Name: Proceedings of the IEEE
Subject: Electronics
ISSN: 0018-9219
Year: 1991
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All gloss and no substance
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Many observers now believe that the editors of UK consumer magazines are putting style before substance. Their writing is often superficial and unoriginal, and they are too unwilling to offend their readers. Magazines have now developed a house style, and are determined to ensure that all contributors stick to this.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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Vigilance: what's a dad to do in a world of sharp corners?
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A woman describes her family's tradition of focusing on safety and the prevention of accidents, especially children's accidents. Her father was a doctor specializing in public health who continually warned of the need to be careful. To her, this carefulness has become an expression of fatherly love.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1997
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