Choosing a programming language as a competitive tool

Greg Ewing see at my.signature
Tue May 8 00:31:41 EDT 2001


"Isaac To Kar Keung" <kkto at csis.hku.hk> wrote in message
news:7iitjdren1.fsf at enark.csis.hku.hk...
> Right, vector really has its mathematical meaning.  If you can understand
> that vectors are not meant to be just 2D or 3D vector, you can understand
> why vector means an array.

But a collection of coordinates are just one way of
representing a vector. The abstract concept of a
vector doesn't depend on coordinates.

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