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The Advantages of Array Languages

There could be an array language that avoids arrays when possible. It's still nice to specify a problem this way, but it's going very much against the grain of the language. And these array operations are things that we know how to do really quickly. So, if you try to pack that on to a big iteration, your algorithm is no longer expressed as an array operation.

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