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Below is a list of improvements that we'd like to make to Algae. These items run the gamut from specific changes that would take only an hour or so to implement to vague, half-baked ideas that might take months. The items are in no particular order--we haven't identified priorities on most of them. We'd be very happy to have some help.

• Symbolic debugging of Algae code would be very helpful.
• We've considered implicit operations on array elements. For example, A[+;] would sum each row of the matrix A. Likewise, V[cos] would apply the cos function to each element of the vector V.
• The printf and related functions should be given additional format codes (like `%m' for matrix), so you could type printf("%m";rand(3,3)).
• A couple of additional operators would be useful for making "selections"; that is, partition one array based on boolean values of a selection vector.
• Algae needs sparse solvers of its own, to be used when BCSLIB isn't available.
• I'm interested in exploring other options for the help system. Users should be able to tie in documentation for their own code.
• With the builtin function, algae has dynamic linking capability. To make this useful, though, we have to document the interface and reorganize the header files.
• We need to complete the fread and fwrite implementation, and we'll probably want an fseek function as well.

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