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| ====== Tool On Objects Language ====== | ====== Tool On Objects Language ====== | ||
| - | Tools-On-Objects Language, is an interactive language for manipulating structured data objects including multi-dimensioned arrays, sets and geometric objects. TOOL is the only language needed throughout the whatIf? platform. | + | Tools-On-Objects Language, is an interactive language for manipulating structured data objects including multi-dimensioned arrays, sets and geometric objects. TOOL is the only ((Occasionally, for complex source data files, a pre-processor script written in another language (e.g. AWK, Perl, R) may be used.)) language needed throughout the whatIf? platform. |
| ===== One Language to Rule Them All ===== | ===== One Language to Rule Them All ===== | ||
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| ===== Multidimensional Support ===== | ===== Multidimensional Support ===== | ||
| - | TOOL handles multidimensional arrays (objects) in a way that makes the math as simple as working with single value variables. For example to multiply a population stock variable which is broken down by region(reg), gender(gen), time(t) and age(a) by a survival rate by only region time and age the math is simply: | + | TOOL handles multidimensional arrays (objects) in a way that makes the math as simple as working with single-value (or scalar) variables. For example to multiply a population stock variable which is broken down by region(reg), gender(gen), time(t) and age(a) by a survival rate by only region time and age the math is simply: |
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| survivors[reg,gen,t,a] = population[reg,gen,t,a] * survivalRate[reg,t,a] | survivors[reg,gen,t,a] = population[reg,gen,t,a] * survivalRate[reg,t,a] | ||
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