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Re: OO in Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg37561] Re: OO in Mathematica
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 04:59:40 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,


Hermann Schmitt wrote:
> 
> My point is, that Mathematica is not based on functional programming.
> Mathematica is essentially a set of instructions, which can be structured
> into programs in several ways.

yes and call the instructions "functions" and you have a functional
language.
But you man have problems to structure a program with out If[] and
Block[]
functions.

Regards
  Jens


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