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What is the Problem?

The Array Cast

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The Importance of Primitive Choice in Programming

The open questions are, if you change the set of primitives that you have available. What there be a wider range of things that you cover that nicely fall out of simple compositions. And are there things that are just ugly nasty. You know, inherently twisty knots that can't be nicely decomposed into a set ofprimitives or they can't be built up from a set ofPrimitives. Yeah, well I think that is actually one of the really nice properties of programming with primitives is that they don't cover all this space very easily. There's an infinite number of options and we've only ever, the array languages are the only ones to explore it.

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