Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave

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Michael Creel <michael.creel <at> uab.es> writes:


> This is a great new feature, thanks to those of you who have been working on
> it. Broadcasting seems like a reasonable name to me. Incidentally, I'm pretty 
> sure that the matrix programming language Gauss had this feature many years 
> ago, numpy didn't invent it.

I think it is actually an APL-ish idea (though details may differ), which means
mid 1960s.  The J programming language is generally hateful, but it's automatic
broadcasting type things are pretty cool.