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Fornax: A General-Purpose Programming Language


J. Storrs Hall
Laboratory for Computer Science Research
Hill Center, Busch Campus
Rutgers University
New Burnswick, NJ 08903
(josh@cs.rutgers.edu)

Abstract

Fornax is a very high-level programming based on pattern-matching concepts from Snobol (and Icon) and array or "data-parallel" concepts from APL (and J).


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