I don't see what's basically wrong with functional approaches to array programming; see the APL family and SISAL?
There is, or was, a definite problem with recursion in gfortran (when I looked some time ago). You can't (or couldn't, then) get tail call elimination in functions. I'd have hoped GCC would have been able to see through the structure of the assignment/return.
There is, or was, a definite problem with recursion in gfortran (when I looked some time ago). You can't (or couldn't, then) get tail call elimination in functions. I'd have hoped GCC would have been able to see through the structure of the assignment/return.