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Re: OO in Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg37635] Re: OO in Mathematica
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 06:41:20 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

you are right, I have never written a Mathematica "program"
and I don't know what is can be. Since there is no "program"
it can't have any structure. You can have functions but I have
never written a function with more than ca 30 statements.
There is no reason to "structure" a Mathematica function that
has typical 5--10 statements.

It seems that larger packages work perfectly right
without any object oriented extension -- how can this
happen ?

And yes I mean functional programming when I say
"functional programming". Every 
real functional/logic programming language
has an assigment. The assigment is not needed
but it save some computation time.  Mathematica
has also functions like While[] only for 
efficiency. 

Regards
  Jens



Hermann Schmitt wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> you must differentiate between instructions and the structuring of programs.
> If you write a small program the structure of the program is no issue. But I
> think, that Mathematica is one of the best programming languages, you can
> also program larger programs/applications with Mathematica. Then the
> structuring of the program/the applications is an issue. You ignore the
> problems of structuring.
> Additionally, your usage of the notion "functional programming" is wrong. If
> you read in the literature, you will see, that functional programming is
> programming only with functions and expressions and without variables and
> without the assignement of values to variables. I think, you  can program in
> this way in Mathematica, but I do not think, that you mean this.
> Hermann
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